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The art of insight in science and engineering : mastering complexity / / Sanjoy Mahajan
The art of insight in science and engineering : mastering complexity / / Sanjoy Mahajan
Autore Mahajan Sanjoy <1969->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (409 p.)
Disciplina 501/.9
Soggetto topico Statistical physics
Estimation theory
Hypothesis
Problem solving
Soggetto non controllato PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General
ENGINEERING/General
MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS/General
SCIENCE / Applied Sciences
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General)
MATHEMATICS / Applied
ISBN 0-262-32524-1
0-262-32523-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910260595203321
Mahajan Sanjoy <1969->  
Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]
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Bioscience hypotheses
Bioscience hypotheses
Pubbl/distr/stampa [New York, N.Y.], : Elsevier Science, ©2008-©2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Soggetto topico Life sciences
Medicine
Hypothesis
Biology
Sciences de la vie
Médecine
Hypothèse
Biologie
biology
Soggetto genere / forma Periodical
periodicals.
Periodicals.
Périodiques.
Soggetto non controllato Biology - General
ISSN 1876-746X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISA-996204260803316
[New York, N.Y.], : Elsevier Science, ©2008-©2009
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Bioscience hypotheses
Bioscience hypotheses
Pubbl/distr/stampa [New York, N.Y.], : Elsevier Science, ©2008-©2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource
Soggetto topico Life sciences
Medicine
Hypothesis
Biology
Sciences de la vie
Médecine
Hypothèse
Biologie
biology
Soggetto genere / forma Periodical
periodicals.
Periodicals.
Périodiques.
Soggetto non controllato Biology - General
ISSN 1876-746X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910145012203321
[New York, N.Y.], : Elsevier Science, ©2008-©2009
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Hypothesis and perception : the roots of scientific method / / Errol E. Harris
Hypothesis and perception : the roots of scientific method / / Errol E. Harris
Autore Harris Errol E.
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1970, 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (400 p.)
Disciplina 501
Collana Muirhead Library of Philosophy
Soggetto topico Science - Methodology
Hypothesis
Perception
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-138-87116-8
1-315-83001-9
1-317-85159-5
1-317-85160-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; PART ONE: CRITICAL; I. PREVALENT VIEWS OF SCIENCE; i. The popular view; ii. Philosophical views; II. INDUCTION; i. Disclaimer of necessity for justification; ii. Induction and probability; iii. The pragmatic justification of induction; iv. Instrumentalism; v. New puzzles for old; vi. The unreasonableness of induction; III. THE EMPIRICIST TREATMENT OF DEDUCTION AND NECESSITY; i. Conventionalism; ii. Deduction and explanation; iii. Counterfactual conditionals; iv. Conclusion
IV. EMPIRICIST REFORMERSi. Dilution of empiricism; ii. Kneale on necessity, perception and consilience; iii. Popper on falsification; (a) Basic statements; (b) Hypothetico-deductive method; PART TWO: HISTORICAL; V. NON-EMPIRICAL ASPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURE; i. The Copernican revolution; (a) Copernicus; (b) Tycho Brahe; (c) Kepler; (d) Galileo; (e) Newton; ii. Dalton and chemical combination; iii. The conservation of mass and energy; iv. Relativity; VI. 'DEDUCTION FROM PHENOMENA'-CASE HISTORIES; i. Kepler's determination of the orbit of Mars
ii. Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the bloodiii. Newton's experiments; iv. Lavoisier and combustion; v. Darwin's defence of the evolution hypothesis; vi. The discovery of the positron; vii. Findings; VII. SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE; i. Conceptual systems; ii. Recognition of observed data; iii. Articulation and proliferation of schemata; iv. The origins of change; v. The transition process; vi. Innovation and conservatism; vii. System and development; PART THREE: EPISTEMOLOGICAL; VIII. PERCEPTION; i. The epistemological crux; ii. Common views of perception; iii. Sense-data
iv. Critique and merits of sense-data theoriesv. Achievement; vi. Discrepancy between 'data' and percept; vii. Schemata; viii. Context; ix. Innate and acquired schemata; x. Influence of past experience; xi. Interpretation; xii. Degrees of organization; xiii. Perception and science; IX. QUESTION AND ANSWER; i. Science and common sense; ii. Question and presupposition; iii. The origins of hypotheses; iv. Analogy and enumeration; v. Abduction; vi. Confirmation; vii. Note: What is meant by 'discovery'?; X. THE LOGIC OF CONSTRUCTION; i. The concept of structure; ii. Formalism, logic and psychology
iii. Systematic thinkingiv. Necessity and causality; v. Probability; vi. Induction and deduction; vii. Science as a system; XI. THE DIALECTIC OF PROGRESS; i. Comprehensiveness and consistency as marks of adequacy; ii. Objections and criticisms; iii. Science as a scale; iv. Dialectic; v. The unity of science; vi. Hierarchy; vii. Agreement of results; XII. SCIENCE AND TRUTH; i. Objectivity; ii. Science and reality; iii. Criticism and defence; iv. Knowledge and its object; v. Validity and progress; vi. Science and metaphysics; vii. Science and religion; INDEX
Record Nr. UNINA-9910453499603321
Harris Errol E.  
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1970, 2013
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Hypothesis and perception : the roots of scientific method / / Errol E. Harris
Hypothesis and perception : the roots of scientific method / / Errol E. Harris
Autore Harris Errol E.
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1970, 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (400 p.)
Disciplina 501
Collana Muirhead Library of Philosophy
Soggetto topico Science - Methodology
Hypothesis
Perception
ISBN 1-138-87116-8
1-315-83001-9
1-317-85159-5
1-317-85160-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; PART ONE: CRITICAL; I. PREVALENT VIEWS OF SCIENCE; i. The popular view; ii. Philosophical views; II. INDUCTION; i. Disclaimer of necessity for justification; ii. Induction and probability; iii. The pragmatic justification of induction; iv. Instrumentalism; v. New puzzles for old; vi. The unreasonableness of induction; III. THE EMPIRICIST TREATMENT OF DEDUCTION AND NECESSITY; i. Conventionalism; ii. Deduction and explanation; iii. Counterfactual conditionals; iv. Conclusion
IV. EMPIRICIST REFORMERSi. Dilution of empiricism; ii. Kneale on necessity, perception and consilience; iii. Popper on falsification; (a) Basic statements; (b) Hypothetico-deductive method; PART TWO: HISTORICAL; V. NON-EMPIRICAL ASPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURE; i. The Copernican revolution; (a) Copernicus; (b) Tycho Brahe; (c) Kepler; (d) Galileo; (e) Newton; ii. Dalton and chemical combination; iii. The conservation of mass and energy; iv. Relativity; VI. 'DEDUCTION FROM PHENOMENA'-CASE HISTORIES; i. Kepler's determination of the orbit of Mars
ii. Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the bloodiii. Newton's experiments; iv. Lavoisier and combustion; v. Darwin's defence of the evolution hypothesis; vi. The discovery of the positron; vii. Findings; VII. SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE; i. Conceptual systems; ii. Recognition of observed data; iii. Articulation and proliferation of schemata; iv. The origins of change; v. The transition process; vi. Innovation and conservatism; vii. System and development; PART THREE: EPISTEMOLOGICAL; VIII. PERCEPTION; i. The epistemological crux; ii. Common views of perception; iii. Sense-data
iv. Critique and merits of sense-data theoriesv. Achievement; vi. Discrepancy between 'data' and percept; vii. Schemata; viii. Context; ix. Innate and acquired schemata; x. Influence of past experience; xi. Interpretation; xii. Degrees of organization; xiii. Perception and science; IX. QUESTION AND ANSWER; i. Science and common sense; ii. Question and presupposition; iii. The origins of hypotheses; iv. Analogy and enumeration; v. Abduction; vi. Confirmation; vii. Note: What is meant by 'discovery'?; X. THE LOGIC OF CONSTRUCTION; i. The concept of structure; ii. Formalism, logic and psychology
iii. Systematic thinkingiv. Necessity and causality; v. Probability; vi. Induction and deduction; vii. Science as a system; XI. THE DIALECTIC OF PROGRESS; i. Comprehensiveness and consistency as marks of adequacy; ii. Objections and criticisms; iii. Science as a scale; iv. Dialectic; v. The unity of science; vi. Hierarchy; vii. Agreement of results; XII. SCIENCE AND TRUTH; i. Objectivity; ii. Science and reality; iii. Criticism and defence; iv. Knowledge and its object; v. Validity and progress; vi. Science and metaphysics; vii. Science and religion; INDEX
Record Nr. UNINA-9910791064603321
Harris Errol E.  
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1970, 2013
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Hypothesis and perception : the roots of scientific method / / Errol E. Harris
Hypothesis and perception : the roots of scientific method / / Errol E. Harris
Autore Harris Errol E.
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1970, 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (400 p.)
Disciplina 501
001.42
Collana Muirhead Library of Philosophy
Soggetto topico Science - Methodology
Hypothesis
Perception
ISBN 1-138-87116-8
1-315-83001-9
1-317-85159-5
1-317-85160-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; PART ONE: CRITICAL; I. PREVALENT VIEWS OF SCIENCE; i. The popular view; ii. Philosophical views; II. INDUCTION; i. Disclaimer of necessity for justification; ii. Induction and probability; iii. The pragmatic justification of induction; iv. Instrumentalism; v. New puzzles for old; vi. The unreasonableness of induction; III. THE EMPIRICIST TREATMENT OF DEDUCTION AND NECESSITY; i. Conventionalism; ii. Deduction and explanation; iii. Counterfactual conditionals; iv. Conclusion
IV. EMPIRICIST REFORMERSi. Dilution of empiricism; ii. Kneale on necessity, perception and consilience; iii. Popper on falsification; (a) Basic statements; (b) Hypothetico-deductive method; PART TWO: HISTORICAL; V. NON-EMPIRICAL ASPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURE; i. The Copernican revolution; (a) Copernicus; (b) Tycho Brahe; (c) Kepler; (d) Galileo; (e) Newton; ii. Dalton and chemical combination; iii. The conservation of mass and energy; iv. Relativity; VI. 'DEDUCTION FROM PHENOMENA'-CASE HISTORIES; i. Kepler's determination of the orbit of Mars
ii. Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the bloodiii. Newton's experiments; iv. Lavoisier and combustion; v. Darwin's defence of the evolution hypothesis; vi. The discovery of the positron; vii. Findings; VII. SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE; i. Conceptual systems; ii. Recognition of observed data; iii. Articulation and proliferation of schemata; iv. The origins of change; v. The transition process; vi. Innovation and conservatism; vii. System and development; PART THREE: EPISTEMOLOGICAL; VIII. PERCEPTION; i. The epistemological crux; ii. Common views of perception; iii. Sense-data
iv. Critique and merits of sense-data theoriesv. Achievement; vi. Discrepancy between 'data' and percept; vii. Schemata; viii. Context; ix. Innate and acquired schemata; x. Influence of past experience; xi. Interpretation; xii. Degrees of organization; xiii. Perception and science; IX. QUESTION AND ANSWER; i. Science and common sense; ii. Question and presupposition; iii. The origins of hypotheses; iv. Analogy and enumeration; v. Abduction; vi. Confirmation; vii. Note: What is meant by 'discovery'?; X. THE LOGIC OF CONSTRUCTION; i. The concept of structure; ii. Formalism, logic and psychology
iii. Systematic thinkingiv. Necessity and causality; v. Probability; vi. Induction and deduction; vii. Science as a system; XI. THE DIALECTIC OF PROGRESS; i. Comprehensiveness and consistency as marks of adequacy; ii. Objections and criticisms; iii. Science as a scale; iv. Dialectic; v. The unity of science; vi. Hierarchy; vii. Agreement of results; XII. SCIENCE AND TRUTH; i. Objectivity; ii. Science and reality; iii. Criticism and defence; iv. Knowledge and its object; v. Validity and progress; vi. Science and metaphysics; vii. Science and religion; INDEX
Record Nr. UNINA-9910808958603321
Harris Errol E.  
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1970, 2013
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The significance of the hypothetical in natural science [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann
The significance of the hypothetical in natural science [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (384 p.)
Disciplina 500
Altri autori (Persone) HeidelbergerMichael
SchiemannGregor
Soggetto topico Reasoning
Hypothesis
Science - Methodology
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-282-71449-X
9786612714498
3-11-021062-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Heidelberger, Michael / Schiemann, Gregor -- Hypothesis in Early Modern Science / McMullin, Ernan -- Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke's Realm / Specht, Rainer -- Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill / Snyder, Laura J. -- From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's "Principles of the Galilean-Newtonian Theory" / Pulte, Helmut -- Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux / Heidelberger, Michael -- Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's Philosophy of Science / Hüttemann, Andreas -- Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré / Heinzmann, Gerhard -- Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime / Walter, Scott -- Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism? / Bouriau, Christophe -- Werner Heisenberg's Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science / Schiemann, Gregor -- "Instrumentalism" and "Realism" as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides / Freudenthal, Gad -- Hypotheticity and Realism - Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism / Bartels, Andreas -- The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses / Nordmann, Alfred -- Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature / Esfeld, Michael -- Backmatter
Record Nr. UNINA-9910455465403321
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009
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The significance of the hypothetical in natural science [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann
The significance of the hypothetical in natural science [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (384 p.)
Disciplina 500
Altri autori (Persone) HeidelbergerMichael
SchiemannGregor
Soggetto topico Reasoning
Hypothesis
Science - Methodology
ISBN 1-282-71449-X
9786612714498
3-11-021062-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Heidelberger, Michael / Schiemann, Gregor -- Hypothesis in Early Modern Science / McMullin, Ernan -- Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke's Realm / Specht, Rainer -- Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill / Snyder, Laura J. -- From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's "Principles of the Galilean-Newtonian Theory" / Pulte, Helmut -- Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux / Heidelberger, Michael -- Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's Philosophy of Science / Hüttemann, Andreas -- Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré / Heinzmann, Gerhard -- Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime / Walter, Scott -- Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism? / Bouriau, Christophe -- Werner Heisenberg's Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science / Schiemann, Gregor -- "Instrumentalism" and "Realism" as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides / Freudenthal, Gad -- Hypotheticity and Realism - Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism / Bartels, Andreas -- The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses / Nordmann, Alfred -- Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature / Esfeld, Michael -- Backmatter
Record Nr. UNINA-9910780735803321
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009
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The significance of the hypothetical in natural science / / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann
The significance of the hypothetical in natural science / / edited by Michael Heidelberger and Gregor Schiemann
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (384 p.)
Disciplina 500
Altri autori (Persone) HeidelbergerMichael
SchiemannGregor
Soggetto topico Reasoning
Hypothesis
Science - Methodology
ISBN 1-282-71449-X
9786612714498
3-11-021062-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Heidelberger, Michael / Schiemann, Gregor -- Hypothesis in Early Modern Science / McMullin, Ernan -- Experience and Hypotheses: Opinions within Locke's Realm / Specht, Rainer -- Hypotheses in 19th Century British Philosophy of Science: Herschel, Whewell, Mill / Snyder, Laura J. -- From Axioms to Conventions and Hypotheses: The Foundations of Mechanics and the Roots of Carl Neumann's "Principles of the Galilean-Newtonian Theory" / Pulte, Helmut -- Contingent Laws of Nature in Émile Boutroux / Heidelberger, Michael -- Pluralism and the Hypothetical in Heinrich Hertz's Philosophy of Science / Hüttemann, Andreas -- Hypotheses and Conventions in Poincaré / Heinzmann, Gerhard -- Hypothesis and Convention in Poincaré's Defense of Galilei Spacetime / Walter, Scott -- Vaihinger and Poincaré: An Original Pragmatism? / Bouriau, Christophe -- Werner Heisenberg's Position on a Hypothetical Conception of Science / Schiemann, Gregor -- "Instrumentalism" and "Realism" as Categories in the History of Astronomy: Duhem vs. Popper, Maimonides vs. Gersonides / Freudenthal, Gad -- Hypotheticity and Realism - Duhem, Popper and Scientific Realism / Bartels, Andreas -- The Hypothesis of Reality and the Reality of Hypotheses / Nordmann, Alfred -- Hypothetical Metaphysics of Nature / Esfeld, Michael -- Backmatter
Record Nr. UNINA-9910819840003321
Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009
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Stereotyping as inductive hypothesis testing / / Klaus Fiedler & Eva Walther
Stereotyping as inductive hypothesis testing / / Klaus Fiedler & Eva Walther
Autore Fiedler Klaus <1951, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hove ; ; New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2004
Descrizione fisica x, 198 p. : ill
Disciplina 303.3/85/072
Altri autori (Persone) WaltherEva <1964->
Soggetto topico Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Hypothesis
Social sciences - Research - Methodology
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-135-47105-3
1-280-07741-7
0-203-64153-1
0-86377-832-1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The topic of social hypothesis testing -- Stereotyping as a cognitive-environmental learning process : delineating the conceptual framework -- Learning of social hypotheses stereotypes as illusory correlations -- The auto-verification of social hypotheses -- Information search in the "inner world" : the origin of stereotypes in memory -- Testing social hypotheses in tri-variate problem space : further variants of environmental stereotype learning -- Explicit and implicit hypothesis testing in a complex environment -- The vicissitudes of information sampling in a fallible environment : an integrative framework -- Epilogue: Locating CELA in modern stereotype research.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910450741503321
Fiedler Klaus <1951, >  
Hove ; ; New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2004
Materiale a stampa
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