The Abductive Structure of Scientific Creativity: An Essay on the Ecology of Cognition (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Enhancing Knowledge: Tracking the External World.- Distributed Model-Based Science: Scientific Models Are Not Fictions.- Not Everything in Scientific Cognition Is Evidence-Based: The Epistemology of Evidentially Inert Knowledge Enhancing.- Epistemic Warfare: Are Scientific Models Fictions or Epistemic Weapons?.- The Genealogy of Abduction: Geometry, and Logic Intertwined.- Maximizing Cognition in Science: Irrelevance and Implausibility Exculpated.- Science Maximizes Abducibility: The Optimization of Eco-Cognitive Situatedness in Ampliative Inferences.- Human Creative Abduction Assaulted: Impoverishing Epistemological Niches.