The cognitive basis of science

The cognitive basis of science / edited by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Stich, and Michael Siegal.

The Cognitive Basis of Science concerns the question: what makes science possible? Specifically, what features of the human mind and of human permit and facilitate the conduct of science? The essays in this volume address these questions, which are inherently interdisciplinary.

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Other Authors: Carruthers, Peter, 1952-, Stich, Stephen P., Siegal, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Science > Philosophy.
Science > Psychological aspects.
Science.
Philosophy.
Cognition.
Social psychology.
sciences (philosophy)
philosophy.
cognition.
social psychology.
science (modern discipline)
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Social psychology
Science
Philosophy
Cognition
Science > Philosophy
Science > Psychological aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: what makes science possible? / Peter Carruthers, Stephen Stich, Michael Siegal
  • Science and innateness
  • Human evolution and the cognitive basis of science / Steven Mithen
  • Modular and cultural factors in biological understanding: an experimental approach to the cognitive basis of science / Scott Atran
  • The roots of scientific reasoning: infancy, modularity and the art of tracking / Peter Carruthers
  • Science and cognition
  • Science without grammar: scientific reasoning in severe agrammatic aphasia / Rosemary Varley
  • Causal maps and Bayes nets: a cognitive and computational account of theory-formation / Alison Gopnik, Clark Glymour
  • The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning in science / Nancy J. Nersessian
  • Understanding the role of cognition in science: the Science as Category framework / Kevin N. Dunbar
  • Theorizing is important, and collateral information constrains how well it is done / Barbara Koslowski, Stephanie Thompson
  • The influence of prior belief on scientific thinking / Jonathan St B.T. Evans
  • Thinking about causality: pragmatic, social and scientific rationality / Denis Hilton
  • Science and motivation
  • The passionate scientist: emotion in scientific cognition / Paul Thagard
  • Emotions and epistemic evaluations / Christopher Hookway
  • Social psychology and the theory of science / Philip Kitcher
  • Science and the social
  • Scientific cognition as distributed cognition / Ronald Giere
  • The science of childhood / Michael Siegal
  • What do children learn from testimony? / Paul L. Harris
  • The baby in the lab-coat: why child development is not an adequate model for understanding the development of science / Luc Faucher, Ron Mallon, Daniel Nazer, Shaun Nichols, Aaron Ruby, Stephen Stich, Jonathan Weinberg.

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