Heuristic Reasoning
Editors: Ippoliti, Emiliano (Ed.)
- Suggests new frameworks for scientific discovery
- Presents both methods of discovery as well as procedures for obtaining and evaluating new knowledge
- Offers a new perspective on logic and methodologies of discovery, and discusses how these can support advancement of knowledge
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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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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Heuristic Reasoning
- Editors
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- Emiliano Ippoliti
- Series Title
- Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
- Series Volume
- 16
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-09159-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-09159-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-09158-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-36222-9
- Series ISSN
- 2192-6255
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- V, 191
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 10 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
- Topics