The Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity

Offers a new perspective on the abductive structure of scientific discovery and creativity

Highlights the role of scientific models, external representations, and artifacts

Describes a new eco-cognitive model of abductive reasoning

Inhalt

Enhancing Knowledge: Tracking the External World.- Distributed Model-Based Science: Scientic Models Are Not Fictions.- Not Everything in Scientic Cognition Is Evidence-Based: The Epistemology of Evidentially Inert Knowledge Enhancing.- Epistemic Warfare: Are Scientic Models Fictions or Epistemic Weapons?.- The Genealogy of Abduction: Geometry, and Logic Intertwined.- Maximizing Cognition in Science: Irrelevance and Implausibility Exculpated.- Science Maximizes Abducibility: The Optimization of Eco-Cognitive Situatedness in Ampliative Inferences.- Human Creative Abduction Assaulted: Impoverishing Epistemological Niches.