Conceptual Revolutions

Thagard, Paul

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“…In actual research situations, theoretical inquiry is a part of the main stream of research. Usually the purpose of the theoretical research is to develop and refine theoretical models in response to evidence (Darden 1992), to pursue internal coherence within the theory (Meheus 2002;Thagard 1992), and to solve other theoretical problems. However, because much scientific inquiry in school is usually limited only to experiment, scientific inquiry skills related to theoretical inquiry are usually not addressed.…”

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An Analysis of the Actual Processes of Physicists’ Research and the Implications for Teaching Scientific Inquiry in School

2008

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Investigation of scientists' actual processes of conducting research can provide us with more realistic aspects of scientific inquiry. This study was performed to identify three aspects of scientists' actual research: their motivations for scientific inquiry, the scientific inquiry skills they used, and the main types of results obtained from their research. To do this, we interviewed six prominent physicists about why and how they researched and what they obtained from their research results. We also analyzed their published papers. In the previous part of this study, types and features of the physicists' research motivations were identified (Park and Jang, Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 47(3), [401][402][403][404][405][406][407][408] 2005). In this article, as the second part of the study, it was found:(1) Various inquiry skills including theoretical as well as experimental research skills and the social skills of scientific inquiry were used in physicists' research. (2) New inventions, articulation of, and falsification of the previous findings were regarded as important research results. (3) Physicists' research processes were often non-linear and cyclical. For each of these findings, implications for teaching scientific inquiry in schools were developed. Finally, we proposed a model of scientific inquiry process consisting of research motives, scientific inquiry skills, and results of inquiry.

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An Analysis of the Actual Processes of Physicists’ Research and the Implications for Teaching Scientific Inquiry in School

2008

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“…The history of science has repeatedly shown that more precise estimates of the relation between concepts are a prerequisite for significant progress within scientific disciplines (Mayr, 1982;Holland et al, 1989;Thagard, 1992Thagard, , 1999. Latent class modelling provides a promising foundation for more precise analyses of survey data.…”

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The Divergent Meanings of Life Satisfaction: Item Response Modeling of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in Greenland and Norway

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2005

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“…We do argue, however, that the approach has contributed to achieving the results and is particularly appropriate. Our approach stands in a new tradition that merges computational facilities with philosophy, a tradition that was started by Thagard (1992), Moor (1998, 2002), Castelfranchi 9 We present here a conceptual prototype that is not yet integrated into our experimental environment. 10 We would like to thank Philip Brey for some insightful comments and suggestions for further research.…”

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Privacy, Deontic Epistemic Action Logic and Software Agents

2005

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In this paper we present an executable approach to model interactions between agents that involve sensitive, privacy-related information. The approach is formal and based on deontic, epistemic and action logic. It is conceptually related to the Belief-Desire-Intention model of Bratman. Our approach uses the concept of sphere as developed by Waltzer to capture the notion that information is provided mostly with restrictions regarding its application. We use software agent technology to create an executable approach. Our agents hold beliefs about the world, have goals and commitment to the goals. They have the capacity to reason about different courses of action, and communicate with one another. The main new ingredient of our approach is the idea to model information itself as an intentional agent whose main goal it is to preserve the integrity of the information and regulate its dissemination. We demonstrate our approach by applying it to an important process in the insurance industry: applying for a life insurance.In this paper we will: (1) describe the challenge organizational complexity poses in moral reasoning about informational relationships; (2) propose an executable approach, using software agents with reasoning capacities grounded in modal logic, in which moral constraints on informational relatio nships can be modeled and investigated; (3) describe the details of our approach, in which information itself is modeled as an intentional agent in its own right; (4) test and validate it by applying it to a concrete 'hard case' from the insurance industry; and (5) conclude that our approach upholds and offers potential for both research and practical application.

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Conceptual Revolutions

Cited by 834 publications

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An Analysis of the Actual Processes of Physicists’ Research and the Implications for Teaching Scientific Inquiry in School

An Analysis of the Actual Processes of Physicists’ Research and the Implications for Teaching Scientific Inquiry in School

The Divergent Meanings of Life Satisfaction: Item Response Modeling of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in Greenland and Norway

Privacy, Deontic Epistemic Action Logic and Software Agents

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