Building Theories Heuristics and Hypotheses in Sciences /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Danks, David (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ippoliti, Emiliano (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 41
• Subjects: Epistemology.; Cognitive psychology.; Artificial intelligence.; Mathematical logic.; Cognitive Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

 This book explores new findings on the long-neglected topic of theory construction and discovery, and challenges the orthodox, current division of scientific development into discrete stages: the stage of generation of new hypotheses; the stage of collection of relevant data; the stage of justifica...