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Methodological Cognitivism

Vol. 2: Cognition, Science, and Innovation

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Riccardo Viale

    1. Rosselli Foundation, Torino, Italy

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  • Interdisciplinary approach
  • Frontier research in social sciences
  • Accessible with few technicalities
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Riccardo Viale
    Pages 1-44

  3. Experimental Philosophy and Causality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Causality: Epistemological and Cognitive Considerations

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 47-67

    3. Cognitive Reasons for Causal Realism

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 69-89

  4. Cognitive Rationality of Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Deductive Rationality and Cognition

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 93-112

    3. Cognitive Theory of Scientific Rationality or of Scientific Reasoning?

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 113-137

    4. The Bridge Between Society and Behaviour in Science

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 139-160

    5. The Socio-Cognitive Character of Decision Making in Science

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 161-196

    6. Art and Science: Some Neurocognitive Remarks on Creativity

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 197-216

  5. Research Policy and Social Epistemology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Social Epistemology and Cognition

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 219-243

    3. Cognitive Realism and Science Policy

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 245-266

    4. Behaviours and Values that Prompted Permanent Innovation

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 267-302

  6. Knowledge Transfer and Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303
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    2. Tacit “Knowledges”

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 305-323

    3. Tacit and Codified Knowledge in Economics

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 325-343

    4. Knowledge Driven Capitalization of Knowledge

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 345-365

    5. Different Cognitive Styles in R&D Labs

      • Riccardo Viale
      Pages 367-390
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About this book

This book covers a broad spectrum of topics, from experimental philosophy and cognitive theory of science, to social epistemology and research and innovation policy. Following up on the previously published Volume 1, “Mind, Rationality, and Society,” it provides further applications of methodological cognitivism in areas such as scientific discovery, technology transfer and innovation policy. It also analyzes the impact of cognitive science on philosophical problems like causality and truth. The book is divided into four parts: Part I “Experimental Philosophy and Causality” tackles the problem of causality, which is often seen as straddling metaphysics, ontology and epistemology. Part II “Cognitive Rationality of Science” deals with the cognitive foundation of scientific rationality, starting from a strong critique of the neopositivist rationality of science on the one hand and of the relativist and social reduction of the methodology of science on the other. Part III “Research Policy and Social Epistemology” deals with topics of social epistemology, science policy and culture of innovation. Lastly, Part IV “Knowledge Transfer and Innovation” addresses the dynamics of knowledge generation, transfer and use in technological innovation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rosselli Foundation, Torino, Italy

    Riccardo Viale

About the author

Riccardo Viale is Professor of Epistemology of Social Sciences at the University of Milano-Bicocca.

He is Editor-in-Chief of Mind & Society (Springer) and the author or editor of many books such as Modelling the Mind (with K.A. Moyeldin Said, H. Newton Smith and K.V. Wilkes, Clarendon Press, 1990); Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution (with H. Simon, M. Egidi and R. Marris, Elgar, 1992), Knowledge and Politics (Physica-Verlag, 2001), Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inferences (with D. Andler and L. Hirschfeld, Erlbaum, 2006), The Capitalization of Knowledge (with H. Etzkowitz, Elgar, 2010).

His research interests are the cognitive foundation of social action, the cognitive theory of economic rationality, cognitive approaches in philosophy of science and social epistemology, tacit knowledge and science policy.

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