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20Scientific and Technological Thinking (edited book)Erlbaum. 2005.This book describes empirically ways to analyze and then to effectually utilize cognitive processes to advance discovery and invention in the sciences. It also explains how to teach these principles to students.
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11Alice Jenkins , Michael Faraday's Mental Exercises: An Artisan Essay Circle in Regency London. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008. Pp. xii+250. ISBN 978-1-84631-140-6. £47.50, $85.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 42 (2): 306. 2009.
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Cognitive-historical approaches to the understanding of scienceIn Gregory J. Feist & Michael E. Gorman (eds.), Handbook of the psychology of science, Springer Pub. Company, Llc. 2013.
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16Imagery Effects on Recall of Minimally Counterintuitive ConceptsJournal of Cognition and Culture 7 (3-4): 355-367. 2007.Much experimental evidence shows that minimally counterintuitive concepts, which violate one intuitive ontological expectation of domain-specific natural kinds, are remembered as well as or better than intuitive concepts with no violations of ontological expectations, and much better than maximally counterintuitive concepts with more than one violation of ontological violations. It is also well established that concepts rated as high in imagery, are recalled better than concepts that are low in …Read more
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34The Creative Structuring of Counterintuitive WorldsJournal of Cognition and Culture 6 (3-4): 483-498. 2006.Recent research has shown a memory advantage for minimally counterintuitive concepts, over concepts that are either intuitive or maximally counterintuitive, although the general result is heavily affected by context. Items from one such study were given to subjects who were asked to create novel stories using at least three concepts from a list containing all three types. Results indicated a preference for using MCI items, and further disclosed two styles of usage, an accommodative style and an …Read more
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19Replication and the Experimental Ethnography of ScienceJournal of Cognition and Culture 4 (3-4): 731-758. 2004.The present paper attempts to define an experimental ethnography as an approach to the understanding of scientific thinking. Such an ethnography relies upon the replication of contemporary and historical scientific practices as a means of capturing the cultural and cognitive meanings of the practices in question. The approach is contrasted to the typical kind of laboratory experiment in psychology, and it is argued that replications of scientific practices can reveal dimensions of the microstruc…Read more
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14Representing the Electromagnetic Field: How Maxwell’s Mathematics Empowered Faraday’s Field TheoryScience & Education 20 (7-8): 687-700. 2011.
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Hypothesis testing: The role of confirmationIn Ryan D. Tweney, Michael E. Doherty & Clifford R. Mynatt (eds.), On Scientific Thinking, Columbia University Press. pp. 115--128. 1981.
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Null hypothesis testing, confirmation bias and strong inferenceIn Ryan D. Tweney, Michael E. Doherty & Clifford R. Mynatt (eds.), On Scientific Thinking, Columbia University Press. pp. 262--267. 1981.
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4On bureaucracy and science a response to FullerPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 21 (2): 203-213. 1991.
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1813. A framework for the cognitive psychology of scienceIn Barry Gholson (ed.), Psychology of Science: Contributions to Metascience, Cambridge University Press. pp. 342. 1989.
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12The effect of sign language grammatical structure on recallBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 10 (4): 331-334. 1977.
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14Procedural Representation in Michael Faraday's Scientific ThoughtPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.The scientific activity of Michael Faraday is examined by focusing on the procedural aspects of his activity. Procedurality is shown to be a fundamental characteristic of his work at a variety of levels: metacognitive, heuristic, schematic, and theoretical. The evolution of his ideas about the goals of science is shown to reflect fundamental roots in a procedural epistemology, closely tied to his concept of field. The implications of this analysis for the philosophy of science are briefly consid…Read more
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9The effect of thematic content on cognitive strategies in the four-card selection taskBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 19 (2): 87-90. 1982.
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Serial and parallel processing in scientific discoveryMinnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 15 77-88. 1992.
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48Discovering discovery: How faraday found the first metallic colloidPerspectives on Science 14 (1): 97-121. 2006.: In 1856, Michael Faraday (1791–1867) conducted nearly a year's worth of research on the optical properties of gold, in the course of which he discovered the first metallic colloids. Following our own discovery of hundreds of the specimens prepared by Faraday for this research, the present paper describes the cognitive role of these "epistemic artifacts" in the dynamics of Faraday's research practices. Analysis of the specimens, Faraday's Diary records, and replications of selected procedures (…Read more
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27The influence of feedback and diagnostic data on pseudodiagnosticityBulletin of the Psychonomic Society 18 (4): 191-194. 1981.
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Two Reviews of B. F. Skinner's "The Shaping of a Behaviorist" No. 1 (review)Behavior and Philosophy 9 (1): 95. 1981.
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72Rationality and the psychology of inferenceSynthese 57 (November): 129-138. 1983.Recent advances in the cognitive psychology of inference have been of great interest to philosophers of science. The present paper reviews one such area, namely studies based upon Wason's 4-card selection task. It is argued that interpretation of the results of the experiments is complex, because a variety of inference strategies may be used by subjects to select evidence needed to confirm or disconfirm a hypothesis. Empirical evidence suggests that which strategy is used depends in part on th…Read more
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16Lorenzo Magnani & Ping Li Philosophy and cognitive science: Western & Eastern studies: Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2012, x+287ppMind and Society 12 (2): 273-276. 2013.Based upon papers given at a 2011 conference at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, this book crosses many boundaries. Most obviously, it includes a balanced set of contributions by philosophers and cognitive scientists from a variety of countries: Nine of the authors are based in Europe, eight in Asia, and one in North America. The conference was the latest of three held in Guangzhou between 2004 and 2011; the editors are to be congratulated for their extensive and continuing efforts to…Read more
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9Occurrence and nonoccurrence of random sequences: Comment on Hahn and Warren (2009)Psychological Review 117 (2): 697-703. 2010.
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10Lorenzo Magnani & Ping Li (Eds.) Philosophy and cognitive science: Western & Eastern studies: Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 2012, x+287pp (review)Mind and Society 12 (2): 273-276. 2013.Based upon papers given at a 2011 conference at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, this book crosses many boundaries. Most obviously, it includes a balanced set of contributions by philosophers and cognitive scientists from a variety of countries: Nine of the authors are based in Europe, eight in Asia, and one in North America. The conference was the latest of three held in Guangzhou between 2004 and 2011; the editors are to be congratulated for their extensive and continuing efforts to…Read more
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The Future of Cognitive Studies of Science and TechnologyIn M. Gorman, R. Tweney, D. Gooding & A. Kincannon (eds.), Scientific and Technological Thinking, Erlbaum. 2005.
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Bowling Green State UniversityRegular Faculty
Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Physical Science |