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ISBN 10: 0521011779 ISBN 13: 9780521011778

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

The Cognitive Basis of Science concerns the question 'What makes science possible?' Specifically, what features of the human mind and of human culture and cognitive development permit and facilitate the conduct of science? The essays in this volume address these questions, which are inherently interdisciplinary, requiring co-operation between philosophers, psychologists, and others in the social and cognitive sciences. They concern the cognitive, social, and motivational underpinnings of scientific reasoning in children and lay persons as well as in professional scientists. The editors' introduction lays out the background to the debates, and the volume includes a consolidated bibliography that will be a valuable reference resource for all those interested in this area. The volume will be of great importance to all researchers and students interested in the philosophy or psychology of scientific reasoning, as well as those, more generally, who are interested in the nature of the human mind.

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The Cognitive Basis of Science concerns the question: what makes science possible? Specifically, what features of the human mind and of human permit and facilitate the conduct of science? The essays in this volume address these questions, which are inherently interdisciplinary.

L'autore:

Peter Carruthers is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland College Park. He was until recently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, where he founded and directed the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies. He is the author of Language, Thought and Consciousness (Cambridge, 1996), Phenomenal Consciousness: A Naturalistic Theory (Cambridge, 2000), and (with George Botterill) of The Philosophy of Psychology (Cambridge, 1999). He co-edited the previous three Hang Seng Centre volumes, Theories of Theories of Mind (Cambridge, 1996), Language and Thought (Cambridge, 1998) and Evolution and the Human Mind (Cambridge, 2000).

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521011779
• ISBN 13: 9780521011778
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 422
• Redattore: Carruthers Peter