Titlebook: Building Theories; Heuristics and Hypot David Danks,Emiliano Ippoliti Book 2018 Springer International Publishing AG 2018 Scientific Theori

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The Product Guides the Process: Discovering Disease Mechanismsew mechanistic philosophy of science” provides resources about the nature of biological mechanisms that aid the discovery of mechanisms. Here, we apply these resources to the discovery of mechanisms in medicine. A new diagrammatic representation of a disease mechanism chain indicates both what is kn

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“Take the Case of a Geometer…” Mathematical Analogies and Building Theories in Aristotletle, which is not extraneous to mathematics but deals with it in a completely different manner: not as a demonstrative tool but as a reservoir of analogies. These two different uses are the tangible expression of two different underlying metaphysics of mathematics: two incommensurable metaphysics, w

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Activation of the Eddy Mental Schema, Multiple Analogies and Their Heuristic Cooperation in the Hististic instrument in scientific thinking, with the intuitive properties of rotation and dissipation. This mental schema presents a great capacity to constitute a fruitful analogical source and to develop an analogical inference. For example, Descartes considered celestial vortexes to explain planetar

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TTT: A Fast Heuristic to New Theories?inks established methods to new theories in an intimate way that challenges the traditional distinction of context of discovery and context of justification. It makes heavy use of rhetorical tropes such as metaphor. This chapter places the TTT heuristic in additional historical, philosophical, and s

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The Noetic Account of Scientific Progress and the Factivity of Understandingere is an increase in knowledge; (2) the semantic account, according to which progress is made when the number of truths increases; (3) the problem-solving account, according to which progress is made when the number of problems that we are able to solve increases. Each of these accounts has receive

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Rhythms, Retention and Protention: Philosophical Reflections on Geometrical Schemata for Biological Biological time, symmetries and singularities. Springer, Berlin, .), we develop a philosophical frame for the proposed dimensions and mathematical structure of biological time, as a working example of “theory building”. We first introduce what “theory building” means to our perspective, in order to

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How to Build New Hypothesesexamples: (1) a new interpretation of Aristotle’s seminal work on abduction, which stresses the need, to build creative and selective abductive hypotheses, of a situation of eco-cognitive openness, (2) a philosophical example of building new hypotheses, in the case of phenomenology, in which we can

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2192-6255 iptive perspectives on the question of theory construction.EThis book explores new findings on the long-neglected topic of .theory construction and discovery., and challenges the orthodox, current division of scientific development into discrete stages: the stage of generation of new hypotheses; the