Scientific discovery is the process or product of successful scientific inquiry. Objects of
discovery can be things, events, processes, causes, and properties as well as theories and …

This paper proposes a computational model for policy administration. As an organization
evolves, new users and resources are gradually placed under the mediation of the access …

The paper provides an interpretation of Aristotle's view on scientific inquiry as problem
solving. It tackles passages where Aristotle emphasises the role that the problem-solving …

Background Diverse knowledge and ways of thinking are claimed to be important when
involving stakeholders such as patients, care professionals, and care managers in a …

The ampliativity of deduction has been defended in several ways—such as the semi-
decidability of the theories, the surprise of unexpected consequences, the need of new …

I investigate the construction of the mathematical concept of quaternion from a
methodological and heuristic viewpoint to examine what we can learn from it for the study of …

The way scientific discovery has been conceptualized has changed drastically in the last few
decades: its relation to logic, inference, methods, and evolution has been deeply reloaded …

I examine the way a relevant conceptual novelty in mathematics, that is, the notion of group,
has been constructed in order to show the kinds of heuristic reasoning that enabled its …

The results of Cubitt et al. on the spectral gap problem add a new chapter to the issue of
undecidability in physics, as they show that it is impossible to decide whether the …

In the process of scientific discovery, knowledge ampliation is pursued by means of non-
deductive inferences. When ampliative reasoning is performed, probabilities cannot be …