Cognition and Scientific Belief
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What does cognitive science have to tell us about the role of                   evidence and argumentation in science?  Over the past twenty or                 more years, cognitive science has been analyzing belief and                     persuasion.   Dr. Margolis has taken what he has learned in                     cognitive science and applied it to an analysis of belief change                -- i.e. "scientific revolutions" -- in science. He is                           specifically applying his understanding of cognitive science to                 the paradigm case of change in belief in science: the Scientific                Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.  Such                    analyses of these well-studied areas promise to have important                  and provocative implications for history and philosophy of                      science as well as for cognitive science.                                                                                                                       Under this grant, Dr. Margolis will examine three different                     aspects of the Scientific Revolution:  1) how persuasive was the                status of the Copernican argument as it stood in 1633;  2) why                  astronomers were unlikely to accept the authority of non-                       astronomers on cosmology; and 3) how other kinds of evidence such               as the discovery of America affected arguments for Copernicanism.               These points go directly to the level of evidence needed for                    scientists to become persuaded of the accuracy of a new theory.                 According to Dr. Margolis, this level of evidence is much less                  than we have earlier supposed.  If his research bears out his                   theory, our understanding of the processes of persuasion, using                 both qualitative and quantitative evidence, and theory change in                science should be greatly improved.
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