Simulating Science: Heuristics, Mental Models, and Technoscientific Thinking

by Michael E. Gorman

Explores questions such as: How do mental models, representations, expectations, and presumptions affect the creation of scientific knowledge? What is the effect of confirmation or disconfirmation on the process of experimentation and the direction of research? How does a scientist decide whether a model or theory is correct?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253326087
• ISBN13: 9780253326089
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.