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 …
E Ippoliti - Perspectives on Deduction: Contemporary Studies in …, 2024 - Springer
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 …
E Ippoliti - Foundations of Science, 2019 - Springer
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 …
E Ippoliti, S Caprara - Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 2021 - Springer
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 …