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A Theory of the Rationality of Scientific Research

By: Scott A. Kleiner, S. Kleiner

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Hardcover | 31 July 1993

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Scientific research is viewed as a deliberate activity and the logic of discovery consists of strategies and arguments whereby the best objectives (questions) and optimal means for achieving these objectives (heuristics) are chosen. This book includes a discussion and some proposals regarding the way the logic of questions can be applied to understanding scientific research and draws upon work in artificial intelligence in a discussion of heuristics and methods for appraising heuristics (metaheuristics). It also includes a discussion of a third source for scientific objectives and heuristics; episodes and examplars from the history of science and the history of philosophy.
This book is written to be accessible to advanced students in philosophy and to the scientific community. It is of interest to philosophers of science, philosophers of biology, historians of physics, and historians of biology.

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Recent Philosophy of Science and Discovery	p. 1
Some Misconceptions Regarding Discovery	p. 5
The Method of Hypothesis	p. 11
Scientific Inquiry	p. 39
Serendipity and the Possibility of Deliberate Innovative Research	p. 40
Case Study: Darwin on the Galapagos	p. 44
A General Taxonomy of Scientific Problems	p. 59
Erotetic Logic and Scientific Questions	p. 87
Questions in Aqvist's Erotetic Logic	p. 88
Quantified Imperative Epistemic Logic (QIE)	p. 90
Answers and Presuppositions to Questions	p. 103
Other Scientific Questions	p. 110
A Methodology for Problem Choice	p. 125
Epistemic Obligations	p. 130
Deductions, Subproblems and Evidence	p. 140
Criteria for weighting problems	p. 157
Means and Ends: Heuristically unsolvable problems	p. 176
The Pursuit of Questions	p. 183
Problem Spaces	p. 183
Process of Induction (PI)	p. 204
The Heuristic Character of Traditional Scientific Methods	p. 233
Analysis and Synthesis	p. 237
'Inductive' Heuristics	p. 250
Analogical Methods	p. 271
The Method of Hypothesis and Abduction	p. 284
Summary and Conclusions	p. 305
References	p. 319
Index	p. 327
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