05434oam 2200733Ma 450 991078993220332120190503073403.00-262-30097-41-280-49923-097866135944640-262-30172-59786613594464(CKB)2670000000173938(EBL)3339425(SSID)ssj0000645211(PQKBManifestationID)12259773(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000645211(PQKBWorkID)10681885(PQKB)10531692(MiAaPQ)EBC3339425(OCoLC)793166974(OCoLC)794490771(OCoLC)817078671(OCoLC)961601535(OCoLC)962607733(OCoLC)965979031(OCoLC)990763223(OCoLC)991959214(OCoLC)1037934516(OCoLC)1038577834(OCoLC)1045520030(OCoLC)1055369325(OCoLC)1065668140(OCoLC)1076577878(OCoLC)1079933377(OCoLC)1081205635(OCoLC-P)793166974(MaCbMITP)9218(Au-PeEL)EBL3339425(CaPaEBR)ebr10553707(CaONFJC)MIL359446(OCoLC)793166974(EXLCZ)99267000000017393820120430d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe cognitive science of science explanation, discovery, and conceptual change /Paul Thagard ; in collaboration with Scott Findlay [and others]Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press©2012©20121 online resource (379 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-262-52598-4 0-262-01728-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; ConclusionChapter 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; AppendixChapter 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 RepresentationsNeural 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 CreativityThe 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; IntroductionCognitive ObstaclesA cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.SciencePhilosophyCognitive scienceCOGNITIVE SCIENCES/GeneralPHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & TechnologySciencePhilosophy.Cognitive science.501Thagard Paul27854Findlay Scott1579745OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910789932203321The cognitive science of science3860040UNINA