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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 54)
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We respect Herbert A. Simon as an established leader of empirical and logical analysis in the human sciences while we happily think of him as also the loner; of course he works with many colleagues but none can match him. He has been writing fruitfully and steadily for four decades in many fields, among them psychology, logic, decision theory, economics, computer science, management, production engineering, information and control theory, operations research, confirmation theory, and we must have omitted several. With all of them, he is at once the technical scientist and the philosophical critic and analyst. When writing of decisions and actions, he is at the interface of philosophy of science, decision theory, philosophy of the specific social sciences, and inventory theory (itself, for him, at the interface of economic theory, production engineering and information theory). When writing on causality, he is at the interface of methodology, metaphysics, logic and philosophy of physics, systems theory, and so on. Not that the interdisciplinary is his orthodoxy; we are delighted that he has chosen to include in this book both his early and little-appreciated treatment of straightforward philosophy of physics - the axioms of Newtonian mechanics, and also his fine papers on pure confirmation theory.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Causes and Possible Worlds
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Front Matter
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The Logic of Imperatives
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Front Matter
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Theory of Scientific Discovery
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Models of Discovery
Book Subtitle: and Other Topics in the Methods of Science
Authors: Herbert A. Simon
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9521-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1977
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0970-7Published: 28 February 1979
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-9521-1Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 475
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Logic