Cognitive Models of Science (Volume 15) (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science) - Hardcover

Giere, Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816619794 ISBN 13: 9780816619795

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1992

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Book by Giere, Ronald

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Cognitive Models of Science resulted from a workshop on the implications of the cognitive sciences for the philosophy of science held in October 1989 under the auspices of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science.

About the Author

Ronald N. Giere (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and a former Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota. In addition to many papers in the philosophy of science, he is the author of UNDERSTANDING SCIENTIFIC REASONING (4th ed 1997); EXPLAINING SCIENCE: A COGNITIVE APPROACH (1988); and SCIENCE WITHOUT LAWS (1999). He has also edited several volumes of papers in the philosophy of science, including, most recently, Cognitive Models of Science (1992) and Origins of Logical Empiricism (1996). Professor Giere is a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science, a long-time member of the editorial board of the journal Philosophy of Science, and a past president of the Philosophy of Science Association. His current research focuses on scientific cognition as a form of distributed cognition and on the perspectival nature of scientific knowledge.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816619794
• ISBN 13: 9780816619795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236