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Heuristic Reasoning

By Emiliano Ippoliti

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2014
ISBN
3319091581, 9783319091587
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3483937 bytes)
Series
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Edition
2015
Pages
191\194
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-09-09 01:26:02

Description

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.

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