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

• Autore: Thagard Paul
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (379 p.)
• Disciplina: 501
• Soggetto topico: Science - Philosophy; Cognitive science
• Soggetto non controllato: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General; PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
• Altri autori: FindlayScott
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The cognitive science of science
• ISBN: 0-262-30097-4; 1-280-49923-0; 9786613594464; 0-262-30172-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789932203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II