Psychology Cognitive Psychology
Computational Philosophy of Science
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 1993
- Category
- Cognitive Psychology
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780262700481
- Publish Date
- Mar 1993
- List Price
- $25.00 USD
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Description
By applying research in artificial intelligence to problems in the philosophy of science, Paul Thagard develops an exciting new approach to the study of scientific reasoning. This approach uses computational ideas to shed light on how scientific theories are discovered, evaluated, and used in explanations. Thagard describes a detailed computational model of problem solving and discovery that provides a conceptually rich yet rigorous alternative to accounts of scientific knowledge based on formal logic, and he uses it to illuminate such topics as the nature of concepts, hypothesis formation, analogy, and theory justification.
About the author
Paul Thagard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of The Cognitive Science of Science (MIT Press, 2012) and many other books.
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