Building theories

the heuristic way

Emiliano Ippoliti

3-20

Building theories

strategies not blueprints

Margaret Morrison

21-43

Richer than reduction

David Danks

45-61

Theory building as problem solving

Carlo Cellucci

63-79

Discovering cures in medicine

Donald Gillies

83-100

The product guides the process

discovering disease mechanisms

Lindley Darden, Lipika Pál, Kunal Kundu, John Moult

101-117

"Take the case of a geometer…"

mathematical analogies and building theories in Aristotle

Monica Ugaglia

119-143

Activation of the eddy mental schema, multiple analogies and their heuristic cooperation in the historical development of fluid dynamics

A. Ulazia

145-166

TTT

a fast heuristic to new theories?

Thomas Nickles

169-189

Heuristic logic

a kernel

Emiliano Ippoliti

191-211

The noetic account of scientific progress and the factivity of understanding

Fabio Sterpetti

213-243

Rhythms, retention and protention

philosophical reflections on geometrical schemata for biological time

Giuseppe Longo, Nicole Perret

245-259

How to build new hypotheses

Lorenzo Magnani

261-284