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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299661503321

Titolo

Heuristic Reasoning / / edited by Emiliano Ippoliti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-09159-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, , 2192-6255 ; ; 16

Disciplina

006.3

120

160

501

Soggetti

Computational intelligence

Philosophy and science

Operations research

Decision making

Logic

Knowledge, Theory of

Computational Intelligence

Philosophy of Science

Operations Research/Decision Theory

Epistemology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.