Titlebook: Building Theories; Heuristics and Hypot David Danks,Emiliano Ippoliti Book 2018 Springer International Publishing AG 2018 Scientific Theori

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Building Theories: Strategies Not Blueprintshe task of the philosopher is typically understood as . in order to highlight the theory’s essential features. If one takes seriously these views about theory structure then it might seem that we should also characterize the practice of building theories in accordance with the guidelines they set ou

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Richer Than Reductioning for possible reductions is widely recognized as one guiding principle for scientific discovery or innovation. However, reduction is only one kind of intertheoretic relation; scientific theories, claims, and proposals can be related in more, and more complex, ways. This chapter proposes that much

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Theory Building as Problem Solvings of two views according to which there is no rational approach to theory building: the hypothetico-deductive view and the semantic view of theories. As an alternative, the paper proposes the analytic view of theories, illustrating it with some examples of theory building by Kepler, Newton, Darwin,