Cognitive models of science /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Giere, Ronald N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1992]
Series:Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 15.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : cognitive models of science / Ronald N. Giere
  • How do scientists think? capturing the dynamics of conceptual change in science / Nancy J. Nersessian
  • The procedural turn; or, Why do thought experiments work? / David Gooding
  • Serial and parallel processing in scientific discovery / Ryan D. Tweney
  • The origin and evolution of everyday concepts / Susan Carey
  • Conceptual change within and across ontological categories : examples from learning and discovery in science / Michelene T.H. Chi
  • Information, observation, and measurement from the viewpoint of a cognitive philosophy of science / Richard E. Grandy
  • Foundationalism Naturalized / C. Wade Savage
  • The airplane and the logic of invention / Gary Bradshaw
  • Strategies for anomaly resolution / Lindley Darden
  • Copernicus, ptolemy, and explanatory coherence / Greg Nowak and Paul Thagard
  • Understanding scientific controversies from a computational perspective : the case of latent learning / Eric G. Freedman.
  • (cont) A deeper unity : some Feyerabendian themes in neurocomputational form / Paul M. Churchland
  • Answers to philosophical and sociological uses of psychologism in science studies : a behavioral psychology of science / Arthur C. Houts and C. Keith Haddock
  • Simulating social epistemology : experimental and computational approaches / Michael E. Gorman
  • Epistemology radically naturalized : recovering the normative, the experimental, and the social / Steve Fuller
  • Invasion of the mind snatchers / Clark Glymour
  • Reconceiving cognition / Paul M. Churchland
  • What the cognitive study of science is not / Ronald N. Giere
  • Computing coherence / Paul Thagard.