The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change

by Paul Thagard

Book Overview

A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.

Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. Cognitive science combines insights from researchers in many fields: philosophers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262525984
• ISBN13: 9780262525985
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher