Three decades ago Laudan posed the challenge: Why should the logic of discovery be re- vived? This paper tries to answer this question arg uing that the logic of discovery should be revived, on the one hand, because, by Gödel’s second incompleteness theorem, mathematical logic fails to be the logic of justification, and only reviving the logic of disco very logic may continue to have an important role. On the other hand, scientists use heuristic tools in their work, and it may be useful to study such tools sys tematical- ly in order to improve current heuristic tools or t o develop new ones. As a step towards reviving the logic of discovery, the paper follows Aristotle in assert ing that logic must be a tool for the method of sci ence, and outlines an approach to the logic of discovery based on the analytic method and on ampliative infe rence rules.

Three decades ago Laudan posed the challenge: Why should the logic of discovery be re- vived? This paper tries to answer this question arg uing that the logic of discovery should be revived, on the one hand, because, by Gödel’s second incompleteness theorem, mathematical logic fails to be the logic of justification, and only reviving the logic of disco very logic may continue to have an important role. On the other hand, scientists use heuristic tools in their work, and it may be useful to study such tools sys tematical- ly in order to improve current heuristic tools or t o develop new ones. As a step towards reviving the logic of discovery, the paper follows Aristotle in assert ing that logic must be a tool for the method of sci ence, and outlines an approach to the logic of discovery based on the analytic method and on ampliative infe rence rules.

Why should the logic of discovery be revived? A reappraisal / Cellucci, Carlo. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 11-27. - STUDIES IN APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, EPISTEMOLOGY AND RATIONAL ETHICS. [10.1007/978-3-319-09159-$_2].

Why should the logic of discovery be revived? A reappraisal

CELLUCCI, Carlo
2014

Abstract

Three decades ago Laudan posed the challenge: Why should the logic of discovery be re- vived? This paper tries to answer this question arg uing that the logic of discovery should be revived, on the one hand, because, by Gödel’s second incompleteness theorem, mathematical logic fails to be the logic of justification, and only reviving the logic of disco very logic may continue to have an important role. On the other hand, scientists use heuristic tools in their work, and it may be useful to study such tools sys tematical- ly in order to improve current heuristic tools or t o develop new ones. As a step towards reviving the logic of discovery, the paper follows Aristotle in assert ing that logic must be a tool for the method of sci ence, and outlines an approach to the logic of discovery based on the analytic method and on ampliative infe rence rules.
2014
Heuristic Reasoning
9783319091587
Three decades ago Laudan posed the challenge: Why should the logic of discovery be re- vived? This paper tries to answer this question arg uing that the logic of discovery should be revived, on the one hand, because, by Gödel’s second incompleteness theorem, mathematical logic fails to be the logic of justification, and only reviving the logic of disco very logic may continue to have an important role. On the other hand, scientists use heuristic tools in their work, and it may be useful to study such tools sys tematical- ly in order to improve current heuristic tools or t o develop new ones. As a step towards reviving the logic of discovery, the paper follows Aristotle in assert ing that logic must be a tool for the method of sci ence, and outlines an approach to the logic of discovery based on the analytic method and on ampliative infe rence rules.
Logic of discovery; Incompleteness theorems; Analytic method
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Why should the logic of discovery be revived? A reappraisal / Cellucci, Carlo. - STAMPA. - (2014), pp. 11-27. - STUDIES IN APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, EPISTEMOLOGY AND RATIONAL ETHICS. [10.1007/978-3-319-09159-$_2].
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