A new problem-solving paradigm for philosophy of science

Title: A new problem-solving paradigm for philosophy of science
Creator: Hooker, Cliff
Relation: Perspectives on Science Vol. 26, Issue 2, p. 266-291
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/POSC_a_00275
Publisher: Massachusetts Instititute of Technology (MIT)
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: A paradigm instructs in how to do research successfully. Analytic philosophy of science, currently dominant, models paradigmatic rational science as a system of logical inferences. It is, however, an abundantly inadequate paradigm. This paper presents an alternative paradigm: science as an organized collection of problem solving processes. This position is backed, on the one side, by a cognitive model of problem solving process applicable to all problem solving circumstances and, on the other, by a non-formal conception of rationality that provides a wider enriched notion of rational research process than is available to the analytic paradigm. The result is a very different way of looking at science and of doing history and philosophy of science. The position is developed sufficiently to display its nature and merits.
Subject: paradigm; philosophy of science; problem solving; organized collection
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1458507
Identifier: uon:45442
Identifier: ISSN:1063-6145
Language: eng
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