Heuristic Reasoning

Book Overview

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 fostering a deeper impact of scientific discovery itself?

The respective chapters in this book provide readers with answers to these questions. They focus on a set of issues that are essential to the development of types of reasoning for advancing knowledge, such as models for both revolutionary findings and paradigm shifts; ways of rationally addressing scientific disagreement, e.g. when a revolutionary discovery sparks considerable disagreement inside the scientific community; frameworks for both discovery and inference methods; and heuristics for economics and the social sciences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319362224
• ISBN13: 9783319362229
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"