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...

Table of Contents:

• Building theories: The heuristic way
• Building theories: Strategies not blueprints
• Richer than reduction
• Theory building as problem solving
• Discovering cures in medicine
• The product guides the process: Discovering disease mechanisms
• Take the case of a Geometer: Mathematical analogies and building theories in Aristotle
• Activation of the eddy mental schema, multiple analogies and their heuristic cooperation in the historical development of fluid dynamics
• Heuristic logic: A kernel
• The noetic account of scientific progress and the factivity of understanding
• Rhythms, retention and protention: Philosophical reflections on geometrical schemata for biological time.