Cognitive Science of Science Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change

Name: Cognitive Science of Science Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
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ISBN: 9780262017282

ISBN-10: 0262017288

ISBN-13: 9780262017282

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul Thagard

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Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. Cognitive science combines insights from researchers in many fields: philosophers analyze historical cases, psychologists carry out behavioral experiments, neuroscientists perform brain scans, and computer modelers write programs that simulate thought processes. Thagard develops cognitive perspectives on the nature of explanation, mental models, theory choice, and resistance to scientific change, considering disbelief in climate change as a case study. He…

Book details

List price: $9.75
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/6/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



What Is the Cognitive Science of Science?



Explanation and Justification



Why Explanation Matters



Models of Scientific Explanation




How Brains Make Mental Models



Changing Minds about Climate Change: Belief Revision, Coherence, and Emotion




Coherence, Truth, and the Development of Scientific Knowledge



Discovery and Creativity



Why Discovery Matters



The Aha! Experience: Creativity through Emergent Binding in Neural Networks




Creative Combination of Representations: Scientific Discovery and Technological Invention



Creativity in Computer Science




Patterns of Medical Discovery



Conceptual Change



Why Conceptual Change Matters



Conceptual Change in the History of Science: Life, Mind, and Disease



Getting to Darwin: Obstacles to Accepting Evolution by Natural Selection




Acupuncture, Incommensurability, and Conceptual Change




Conceptual Change in Medicine: Explanations of Mental Illness from Demons to Epigenetics




New Directions



Values in Science: Cognitive-Affective Maps



Scientific Concepts as Semantic Pointers


References


Index