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1 Online-Ressource (xii, 409 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511613517
Content:
The Cognitive Basis of Science concerns the question 'What makes science possible?' Specifically, what features of the human mind and of human culture and cognitive development permit and facilitate the conduct of science? The essays in this volume address these questions, which are inherently interdisciplinary, requiring co-operation between philosophers, psychologists, and others in the social and cognitive sciences. They concern the cognitive, social, and motivational underpinnings of scientific reasoning in children and lay persons as well as in professional scientists. The editors' introduction lays out the background to the debates, and the volume includes a consolidated bibliography that will be a valuable reference resource for all those interested in this area. The volume will be of great importance to all researchers and students interested in the philosophy or psychology of scientific reasoning, as well as those, more generally, who are interested in the nature of the human mind
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Introduction: what makes science possible?
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Science and innateness ; Human evolution and the cognitive basis of science
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Modular and cultural factors in biological understanding: an experimental approach to the cognitive basis of science
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The roots of scientific reasoning: infancy, modularity and the art of tracking
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Science and cognition ; Science without grammar: scientific reasoning in severe agrammatic aphasia
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Causal maps and Bayes nets: a cognitive and computational account of theory-formation
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The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning in science
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Understanding the role of cognition in science: the Science as Category framework
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Theorizing is important, and collateral information constrains how well it is done
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The influence of prior belief on scientific thinking
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Thinking about causality: pragmatic, social and scientific rationality
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Science and motivation ; The passionate scientist: emotion in scientific cognition
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Emotions and epistemic evaluations
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Social psychology and the theory of science
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Science and the social ; Scientific cognition as distributed cognition
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The science of childhood
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521812290
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521011778
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The cognitive basis of science Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2002 ISBN 0521812291
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521011779
Language:
English
Subjects:
Psychology
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Wissenschaftstheorie
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Kognitionswissenschaft
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Kognition
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Wissenschaftstheorie
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Kognitionswissenschaft
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511613517
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Author information:
Carruthers, Peter 1952-
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