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Discoverability Lorenzo Magnani

Discoverability By Lorenzo Magnani

Discoverability by Lorenzo Magnani


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Enhancing discoverability will protect human creativity, and it is exactly human creativity, a form of innovative abductive cognition, that can promote the implementation of the other kinds of ecology.

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Discoverability: The Urgent Need of an Ecology of Human Creativity by Lorenzo Magnani

The book analyses the concept of discoverability, and some current epistemological problems related to it, with a special attention to science. It shows that discoverability is closely related to the sustainability of human creativity in an eco-cognitive perspective. Advocating the need of an integral ecology and leveraging the important concept of abduction, it demonstrates that an ecology of human creativity should have priority over other needs, i.e that the first ecological duty is to protect and sustain discoverability. Enhancing discoverability will protect human creativity, and it is exactly human creativity, a form of innovative abductive cognition, that can promote the implementation of the other kinds of ecology. The author guides readers through a comprehensive discussion on the concept of discoverability, eco-cognitive situatedness, and eco-cognitive openness and closure alike. By describing some key real-world examples, he highlights the main challenges that are currently posed to human creativity and epistemic integrity. He also describes future eco-cognitive settings, discussing the problem of overcomputationalism and suggesting a reinterpretation of the role of human knowledge.

Overall, this book fills an important gap in the literature on the nexus abduction - creativity - discovery, offering a source of inspiration to philosophers, epistemologists, and cognitive scientists. Yet, it also addresses researchers in other disciplines interested in the problems of scientific discovery and epistemic integrity of research.

About Lorenzo Magnani

Lorenzo Magnani, philosopher, epistemologist, and cognitive scientist, is a professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Pavia, Italy, and the director of its Computational Philosophy Laboratory. Authors and editor of many books and proceedings and of about 400 publications in 2015 has been appointed member of the International Academy for the Philosophy of the Sciences (AIPS). He is the editor of the Book Series Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE), Springer, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

1 Discoverability Explained: Optimizing the Eco-Cognitive Situatedness 2 Curing Eco-Cognitive Situatedness: Diagnosticability, Affordances, Abduction3 Eco-Cognitive Openness and Eco-Cognitive Closure: Locking or Unlocking Strategies? Knowledge in MotionDefended4 Jeopardizing DiscoverabilityEpistemic Irresponsibility: Human Creative Abduction Attacked5 The Future of Eco-Cognitive SettingsComputationally or Humanly Tailored? Conclusion

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NPB9783030933289
9783030933289
3030933288
Discoverability: The Urgent Need of an Ecology of Human Creativity by Lorenzo Magnani
New
Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2022-05-21
156
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