Why was the Logic of Discovery Abandoned?

1980 ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Laudan
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Discovery

A new approach to the logic of discovery

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
Gerald Massey
Keyword(s):  
Modal Logic ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Logic Of Discovery ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Deep Sense

Contending that the quest for a logic of scientific discovery was prematurely abandoned, the author lays down eight phenomena that such a logic or theory must explain: the banality of scientific discovery; the trainability of scientists; the high incidence of simultaneous discoveries; the ubiquity of relative novices; the fact of scientific genius; the barrenness of isolated workers; the incommensurability of concepts of successive theories; and the quasi-incorporation of old concepts, objects, and methods in successor theories, The author then presents a new theory or logic of discovery according to which discoveries are the termini of "tweak paths" generated when scientists "tinker" with the laws, concepts, methods, and instruments of a given theory. Tinkering and tweaking are illustrated by examples from many-valued and modal logic and from Darwinian biology. Through the history of planetary discovery, the accidental role played by luck or good fortune in some discoveries is explored, but the author emphasizes that in a deep sense serendipity is an in eliminable feature of all scientific discovery because scientists never know m advance whether their tweaks will lead to dead ends or to positive developments. The author's new theory of scientific discovery is shown to account for all eight explananda, ft also reveals science to be a more egalitarian enterprise than the traditional view of scientific discovery as ultimately inexplicable depicts it.

The Idea of a Logic of Discovery

1971 ◽  
pp. 288-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norwood Russell Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Discovery

The Logic of Discovery

The Monist ◽  
1922 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Carmichael ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Discovery

Invention and Induction Laudan, Simon and the Logic of Discovery

1982 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Discovery

scholarly journals LLULL AND LEIBNIZ: THE LOGIC OF DISCOVERY

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
JOHN R. WELCH
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Discovery

The Aesthetic Component in the Logic of Discovery and Detection

1989 ◽  
pp. 138-144
Author(s):  
Anthony F. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Discovery ◽  
The Aesthetic

Hanson, Norwood Russell (1924–67)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward MacKinnon
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Logic Of Discovery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Linguistic Analyses ◽  
Inference Systems ◽  
Problematic Situations

Hanson was a philosopher of science who introduced novel ways of relating logical, historical and linguistic analyses. His best-known book, Patterns of Discovery, stressed the theory-ladeness of observational reports and argued that causality is a feature of inference systems, rather than of nature as such. He pioneered in combining historical and analytic analyses of significant breakthroughs in science. Though he clarified patterns of discovery he never succeeded in the project of developing a logic of discovery, or an account of the inferences leading from problematic situations to novel explanatory hypotheses. A man of many talents, he also made contributions to the history of science, aerodynamics and epistemology.

The Autonomy of a Logic of Discovery

1981 ◽  
pp. 248-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Thagard
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Discovery

Why was the Logic of Discovery Abandoned?

1981 ◽  
pp. 181-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Laudan
Keyword(s):  
Logic Of Discovery
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