Product Description: The book answers long-standing questions on scientific modeling and inference across multiple perspectives and disciplines, including logic, mathematics, physics and medicine. The different chapters cover a variety of issues, such as the role models play in scientific practice; the way science shapes our concept of models; ways of modeling the pursuit of scientific knowledge; the relationship between our concept of models and our concept of science...read more

Product Description: How can we advance knowledge? Which methods do we need in order to make new discoveries? How can we rationally evaluate, reconstruct and offer discoveries as a means of improving the ‘method’ of discovery itself? And how can we use findings about scientific discovery to boost funding policies, thus fostering a deeper impact of scientific discovery itself?The respective chapters in this book provide readers with answers to these questions...read more

Product Description: How do we get new knowledge? Following the maverick tradition in the philosophy of science, Carlo Cellucci gradually came to the conclusion that logic can only fulfill its role in mathematics, science and philosophy if it helps us to answer this question...read more

Product Description: The problematic relation between logic and knowledge has given rise to some of the most important works in the history of philosophy, from Books VI VII of Plato s Republic and Aristotle s Prior and Posterior Analytics, to Kant s Critique of Pure Reason and Mill s A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive...read more

Product Description: Le inferenze sono definite ampliative quando permettono di estendere - ampliare - le nostre conoscenze, nel senso che i dati e le informazioni contenute nella conclusione non sono contenute nelle premesse, come avviene nel caso delle inferenze non-ampliative (ossia quelle deduttive)...read more

Product Description: La plausibilità, quale strumento per costruire e valutare ipotesi e guidare l'azione, è un concetto che nasce da un'esigenza fondamentale non solo dell'impresa conoscitiva, ma dell'uomo in quanto tale: quella di limitare e gestire l'incertezza e la provvisorietà che contraddistinguono ogni aspetto della sua esistenza...read more