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How scientists explain disease /

How do scientists develop new explanations of disease? How do those explanations become accepted as true? And how does medical diagnosis change when physicians are confronted with new scientific evidence? These are some of the questions that Paul Thagard pursues in this book that develops a new, int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thagard, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:How do scientists develop new explanations of disease? How do those explanations become accepted as true? And how does medical diagnosis change when physicians are confronted with new scientific evidence? These are some of the questions that Paul Thagard pursues in this book that develops a new, integrative approach to the study of science. How Scientists Explain Disease challenges both traditional philosophy of science, which has viewed science as largely a matter of logic, and contemporary science studies that view science as largely a matter of power. Drawing on theories of distributed computing and artificial intelligence, Paul Thagard develops new models that make sense of scientific change as a complex system of cognitive, social, and physical interactions.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 263 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index.
ISBN:0691002614
9780691002613
9780691187303
0691187304
069105083X
9780691050836