『The Cognitive Basis of Science』

Peter Carruthers, Stephen Stich, and Michael Siegal (eds.)
(2002年5月刊行, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xii+409 pp., ISBN:9780521011778 [pbk] → 情報版元ページ

【目次】
List of contributors ix
Preface xi


1. Introduction: what makes science possible? 1
PETER CARRUTHERS, STEPHEN STICH AND MICHAEL SIEGAL


Part One: Science and Innateness

2. Human evolution and the cognitive basis of science 23
STEVEN MITHEN
3. Modular and cultural factors in biological understanding: an experimental approach to the cognitive basis of science 41
SCOTT ATRAN
4. The roots of scientific reasoning: infancy, modularity and the art of tracking 73
PETER CARRUTHERS


Part Two: Science and Cognition

5. Science without grammar: scientific reasoning in severe agrammatic aphasia 99
ROSEMARY VARLEY
6. Causal maps and Bayes nets: a cognitive and computational account of theory-formation 117
ALISON GOPNIK AND CLARK GLYMOUR
7. The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning in science 133
NANCY J. NERSESSIAN
8. Understanding the role of cognition in science: the Science as Category framework 154
KEVIN N. DUNBAR
9. Theorizing is important, and collateral information constrains how well it is done 171
BARBARA KOSLOWSKI AND STEPHANIE THOMPSON
10. The influence of prior belief on scientific thinking 193
JONATHAN ST B. T. EVANS
11. Thinking about causality: pragmatic, social and scientific rationality 211
DENIS HILTON


Part Three: Science and Motivation

12. The passionate scientist: emotion in scientific cognition 235
PAUL THAGARD
13. Emotions and epistemic evaluations 251
CHRISTOPHER HOOKWAY
14. Social psychology and the theory of science 263
PHILIP KITCHER


Part Four: Science and the Social

15. Scientific cognition as distributed cognition 285
RONALD GIERE
16. The science of childhood 300
MICHAEL SIEGAL
17. What do children learn from testimony? 316
PAUL L. HARRIS
18. The baby in the lab-coat: why child development is not an adequate model for understanding the development of science 335
LUC FAUCHER, RON MALLON , DANIEL NAZER , SHAUN NICHOLS, AARON RUBY , STEPHEN STICH AND JONATHAN WEINBERG


References 363
Author index 396
Subject index 405