The Cognitive Science of Science (Record no. 76534)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780262017282 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 501 |
| Cutter | Tha |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Thagard, Paul |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Cognitive Science of Science |
| Remainder of title | : Explanation, Discovery, And Conceptual Change |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Cambridge / London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Mit Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii;365 |
| Other physical details | 6x9 |
| Dimensions | hb |
| 520 ## - Remark | |
| Summary, etc | 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. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | ENG |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Science-Philosophy |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Cognitive science |
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| Book | HBCSE | HBCSE | General Science | 2014-05-20 | 501/Tha | 20367 | 2019-11-08 | 2019-07-29 | Book | ||||
| Book | HBCSE | HBCSE | General Science | 2014-05-20 | 501/Tha | 21176 | 2014-05-20 | Book |