%0 eBook %M Solr-EB000897371 %E Ippoliti, Emiliano %I Springer International Publishing %D 2015 %C Cham %G English %B Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics %@ 9783319091594 %T Heuristic Reasoning %U https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09159-4?nosfx=y %7 1st ed. 2015 %X How can we advance knowledge? Which methods do we need in order to make new discoveries? How can we rationally evaluate, reconstruct and offer discoveries as a means of improving the ‘method’ of discovery itself? And how can we use findings about scientific discovery to boost funding policies, thus fostering a deeper impact of scientific discovery itself? The respective chapters in this book provide readers with answers to these questions. They focus on a set of issues that are essential to the development of types of reasoning for advancing knowledge, such as models for both revolutionary findings and paradigm shifts; ways of rationally addressing scientific disagreement, e.g. when a revolutionary discovery sparks considerable disagreement inside the scientific community; frameworks for both discovery and inference methods; and heuristics for economics and the social sciences