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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 analyze historical cases, psychologists carry out behavioral experiments, neuroscientists perform brain scans, and computer modelers write programs that simulate thought processes.

Thagard develops cognitive perspectives on the nature of explanation, mental models, theory choice, and resistance to scientific change, considering disbelief in climate change as a case study. He presents a series of studies that describe the psychological and neural processes that have led to breakthroughs in science, medicine, and technology. He shows how discoveries of new theories and explanations lead to conceptual change, with examples from biology, psychology, and medicine. Finally, he shows how the cognitive science of science can integrate descriptive and normative concerns; and he considers the neural underpinnings of certain scientific concepts.

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  • Title The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
  • Author Paul Thagard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 378
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher MIT Press
  • Publication date 2014-01-10
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780262525985 / 0262525984
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 5.62 x 0.74 in (23.06 x 14.27 x 1.88 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Science - Philosophy, Cognitive science
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011039760
  • Dewey Decimal Code 501

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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