The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change by Paul Thagard (PDF)

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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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⭐Il libro offre una collezione di articoli scientifici di Paul Thagard e co-autori in cui analizza la creazione della scienza sotto diversi aspetti: neuroscientifico(reti neurali), cognitivi (rappresentazioni) e linguistici(analogie metafore). Solo quattro capitoli –se non erro– sono inediti, e sono senza dubbio tra i più leggeri.Nonostante alcuni capitoli possano essere un po’ ostici, il libro può essere adatto anche a chi non ha solide basi di neuroscienze, o scienze cognitive. Comunque resta un libro adatto all’approfondimento e quindi è più adatto ad un’audience preparata.

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