@article{723505, author = {Ippoliti, Emiliano,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/723505}, title = {Heuristic reasoning [electronic resource] /}, abstract = {How can we advance knowledge? Which methods do we need in order to make new discoveries? How can we rationally evaluate, reconstruct and offer discoveries as a means of improving the ?method? of discovery itself? And how can we use findings about scientific discovery to boost funding policies, thus fostering a deeper impact of scientific discovery itself? The respective chapters in this book provide readers with answers to these questions. They focus on a set of issues that are essential to the development of types of reasoning for advancing knowledge, such as models for both revolutionary findings and paradigm shifts; ways of rationally addressing scientific disagreement, e.g. when a revolutionary discovery sparks considerable disagreement inside the scientific community; frameworks for both discovery and inference methods; and heuristics for economics and the social sciences.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09159-4}, recid = {723505}, pages = {1 online resource.}, }