1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461731403321

Autore

Thagard Paul

Titolo

The cognitive science of science : explanation, discovery, and conceptual change / / Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Scott Findlay ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-49923-0

9786613594464

0-262-30172-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (379 p.)

Disciplina

501

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy

Cognitive science

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction; Chapter 1. What Is the Cognitive Science of Science?; Explaining Science; Approaches to the Cognitive Science of Science; Methodology of Computational Modeling; Unified Cognitive Science Research; Other Approaches to Studying Science; Studies in the Cognitive Science of Science; Part II. Explanation and Justification; Chapter 2. Why Explanation Matters; Chapter 3. Models of Scientific Explanation; Explanation; Deductive Models; Schema and Analogy Models; Probabilistic Models; Neural Network Models; Causality; Conclusion

Chapter 4. How Brains Make Mental ModelsIntroduction; Mental Models; Abduction; Neural Representation and Processing; Neural Mental Models; Generating New Ideas and Hypotheses; Embodiment: Moderate and Extreme; Conclusion; Chapter 5. Changing Minds about Climate Change: Belief Revision, Coherence, and Emotion; Scientific Belief Revision; Climate Change; Coherence and Revision; Simulating Belief Revision about Climate Change; Simulating Resistance to Belief Revision; Alternative Theories of Belief Revision; Conclusion; Appendix

Chapter 6. Coherence, Truth, and the Development of Scientific



KnowledgeIntroduction; The Relation between Coherence and Truth; Explanatory Coherence; The Pessimistic Induction; Whewell ' s Overoptimistic Induction; Deepening and the Cautiously Optimistic Induction; Mechanisms and Explanation; Approximate Truth; Deepening the Deepening Maxim; Conclusion; Part III. Discovery and Creativity; Chapter 7. Why Discovery Matters; Chapter 8. The Aha! Experience: Creativity through Emergent Binding in Neural Networks; Creative Cognition; Creativity from Combination of Representations

Neural Combination and BindingBinding by Convolution; Emotion and Creativity; Simulations; What Convolutions Are Creative?; Limitations; Comparisons with Related Work; Conclusion; Chapter 9. Creative Combination of Representations: Scientific Discovery and Technological Invention; Introduction; Study 1: Scientific Discovery; Study 2: Technological Invention; Objections to Combination; Conclusion; Appendix: Blind Variation; Chapter 10. Creativity in Computer Science; Introduction; Nature and Origins of Problems in Computer Science; Creative Analogies in Computer Science; Everyday Creativity

The Casual Mode of CreativityComparison with Natural Science; Conclusion; Chapter 11. Patterns of Medical Discovery; Introduction; Medical Hypotheses; Logical Patterns; Psychological Patterns; Neural Patterns; Technological Patterns; Conclusion; Part IV. Conceptual Change; Chapter 12. Why Conceptual Change Matters; Chapter 13. Conceptual Change in the History of Science: Life, Mind, and Disease; Introduction; History and Philosophy of Science; Life; Disease; Mind; Conceptual Change; Chapter 14. Getting to Darwin: Obstacles to Accepting Evolution by Natural Selection; Introduction

Cognitive Obstacles

Sommario/riassunto

A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787951103321

Autore

Cook M

Titolo

Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story [[electronic resource] ] : The Haunted Text / / by M. Cook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-137-29489-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Crime Files

Classificazione

FIC031000FIC050000

Disciplina

809.3/872

Soggetti

Fiction

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Detecting the Ghost; 2 Decoding the Past: Narrativeand Inquiry in 'The MusgraveRitual' and 'The Treasure ofAbbot Thomas'; 3 Out of the Past: Retributionand Conan Doyle's DoubleNarratives; 4 'That Forbidding Moor':The Hound of the Baskervilles ,a Ghost Story?; 5 Agatha Christie's Harlequinade:The 'Bi-Part' Soul of the Detective; 6 Golden Age Gothic: John DicksonCarr's Locked Room; 7 Rebus's Edinburgh Palimpsest:The Spirits of the Place; 8 Susan Hill's Lost Hearts:The Woman in Black and theSerrailler Novels

9 Tony Hillerman's CulturalMetaphysicsConclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography and SuggestedReading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is a lively series of case studies celebrating the close relationship between detective fiction and the ghost story. It features many of the most famous authors from both genres including Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, M. R. James and Tony Hillerman.