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Publication details
Verlag: Springer
Ort: Berlin
Jahr: 2010
Pages: 643-654
Reihe: Studies in Computational Intelligence
ISBN (Hardback): 9783642152221
Volle Referenz:
, "Modeling the causal structure of the history of science", in: Model-based reasoning in science and technology, Berlin, Springer, 2010
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Modeling the causal structure of the history of science
pp. 643-654
in: Lorenzo Magnani, Walter Carnielli, Claudio Pizzi (eds), Model-based reasoning in science and technology, Berlin, Springer, 2010Abstrakt
This paper is an overview of an approach in the philosophy of science of constructing causal models of the history of science. Units of scientific knowledge, called "advances", are taken to be related by causal connections, which are modeled in computers by probability distribution functions. Advances are taken to have varying "causal strengths' through time. The approach suggests that it would be interesting to develop a causal model for scientific reasoning. A discussion of counterfactual histories of science is made, with a classification of three types of counterfactual analyses: (i) in economic and technologic history, (ii) in the history of science and mathematics, and (iii) in social history and evolutionary biology.
Publication details
Verlag: Springer
Ort: Berlin
Jahr: 2010
Pages: 643-654
Reihe: Studies in Computational Intelligence
ISBN (Hardback): 9783642152221
Volle Referenz:
, "Modeling the causal structure of the history of science", in: Model-based reasoning in science and technology, Berlin, Springer, 2010