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Ronald N. Giere
Researcher at University of Minnesota
Publications - 61
Citations - 5655
Ronald N. Giere is an academic researcher from University of Minnesota. The author has contributed to research in topics: Philosophy of science & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 61 publications receiving 5455 citations. Previous affiliations of Ronald N. Giere include Indiana University.
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Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach
TL;DR: Giere as discussed by the authors argues that it is better to understand scientists as merely constructing more or less abstract models of limited aspects of the world, and that to defend science one need not defend the Enlightenment ideal.
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How Models Are Used to Represent Reality
TL;DR: The authors argue that scientists use designated similarities between models and aspects of the world to form both hypotheses and generalizations, leaving aside the terms "law" and "theory" to distinguish principles, specific conditions, models, hypotheses, and generalization.
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Understanding scientific reasoning
TL;DR: Students learn how to reason through case studies using the same informal logic skills employed by scientists, and sharpen their abilities to analyze a complex series of propositions and hypotheses in the same manner as scientists.
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Science without laws
TL;DR: Giere argues that it is better to understand scientists as merely constructing more or less abstract models of limited aspects of the world such an understanding makes possible a resolution of the issues at stake in the science wars.
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Cognitive models of science
TL;DR: Giere as discussed by the authors argued that the cognitive sciences have reached sufficient maturity that they are now a valuable resource for philosophers of science who are developing general theories of science as a human activity, and that cognitive science might now play the sort of role within the philosophy of science that formal logic played for logical empiricism or that history of science played for the historical school.