A REPRESENTATIONAL VIEW OF SCIENCE
Book review of Giere on Scientific Cognition

Abstract

Cognitive science can provide the tools for examining and understanding conceptual development in scientists. Science develops nonalgorithmically and nonlinearly. Scientists in different paradigms use different ontological representations.

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