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Title
Heuristic reasoning [electronic resource] / Emiliano Ippoliti, editor.
ISBN
9783319091594 electronic book
331909159X electronic book
9783319091587
Published
Cham ; New York : Springer, [2015]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-09159-4 doi
Call Number
BC177
Dewey Decimal Classification
160
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 10, 2014).
Series
Studies in applied philosophy. epistemology and rational ethics ; v. 16.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319091587
Reasoning at the frontier of knowledge: Introductory essay
Why should the logic of discovery be revived? A reappraisal
Are Heuristics Knowledge-Enhancing?Abduction, Models, and Fictions in Science
Heuristic Appraisal at the Frontier of Research
Why do Scientific Revolutions begin?
Withstanding Tensions: Scientific Disagreement and Epistemic Tolerance
Heuristics as Methods: Validity, Reliability and Velocity
Dynamic generation of hypotheses: Mandelbrot, Soros and Far-From-Equilibrium.
