Heuristic Reasoning

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ippoliti, Emiliano (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 16
• Subjects: Engineering.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Epistemology.; Logic.; Philosophy and science.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Philosophy of Science.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

How can we advance knowledge? Which methods do we need in order to make new discoveries? How can we rationally evaluate, reconstruct and offer discoveries as a means of improving the ‘method’ of discovery itself? And how can we use findings about scientific discovery to boost funding policies, thus...