Scientific Discovery Processes in Humans and Computers: Theory and Research in Psychology and Artificial IntelligenceWagman offers a critical analysis of current theory and research in the psychological and computational sciences, directed toward the elucidation of scientific discovery processes and structures. It discusses human scientific discovery processes, analyzes computer scientific discovery processes, and makes a comparative evaluation of the two. This work examines the scientific reasoning of the discoverers of the inhibition mechanism of gene control; scientific discovery heuristics used at different developmental levels; artificial intelligence and mathematical discovery; the ECHO system; the evolution of artificial intelligence discovery systems; the PAULI system; and the KEKADA system. It concludes with an examination of the extent to which computational discovery systems can emulate a set of 10 types of scientific problems. |
Contents
Conceptual Discovery in Molecular Genetics | 7 |
Scientific Discovery Heuristics and Developmental Level | 49 |
Mathematical Discovery | 67 |
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activation hypothesis activation-only AM's analogous applied artificial intelligence B-gal BACON BACON.3 Black's law chromosome Cognitive Science coli computational concepts conservation laws constraints creative operators current hypothesis diploid discover discovery systems Dunbar ECHO empirical discovery EURISKO evaluate example experiment space explanatory coherence FAHRENHEIT following section functional transformation genes genetic given goal Hans Krebs haploid heuristics ideal gas law inconsistent evidence independent terms induction inhibitor initial involved italics added KEKADA Kepler Kepler's third law Klahr lactose Langley & Zytkow Langley and Zytkow large output Lenat M₂ machine discovery mathematical mechanism methods molecular Monod and Jacob mutants observed output of ẞ-gal particle physics PAULI phlogiston phlogiston theory plausible problem solving produce proposed proposition quantum numbers reactions relations scientific discovery processes scientific reasoning Selector Shen strategies Study subjects T₁ task temperature Thagard theoretical terms third graders types Valdés-Pérez values variables
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Reasoning Processes in Humans and Computers: Theory and Research in ... Morton Wagman No preview available - 2003 |