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  1. Science, Tradition, and the Science of Tradition.Joseph Mali - 1989 - Science in Context 3 (1):143-173.
    The ArgumentScience consists in progress by innovation. Scientists, however, are committed to all kinds of traditions that persist or recur in society regardless of intellectual and institutional changes. Merton's thesis about the origins of the scientific revolution in seventeenth-century England offers a sociohistorical confirmation of this revisionist view: the emergence of a highly rational scientific method out of the religious-ethical sentiments of the English Puritans implies that scientific knowledge does indeed grow out of – and not really against – customary (...)
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  • Discovery in Cognitive Psychology: New Tools Inspire New Theories.Gerd Gigerenzer - 1992 - Science in Context 5 (2):329-350.
    The ArgumentScientific tools—measurement and calculation instruments, techniques of inference—straddle the line between the context of discovery and the context of justification. In discovery, new scientific tools suggest new theoretical metaphors and concepts; and in justification, these tool-derived theoretical metaphors and concepts are morelikely to be accepted by the scientific community if the tools are already entrenched in scientific practice.Techniques of statistical inference and hypothesis testing entered American psychology first as tools in the 1940s and 1950s and then as cognitive theories (...)
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  • Is economics still immersed in the old concepts of the Enlightenment era?Andrzej P. Wierzbicki - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):236-237.
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  • The human being as a bumbling optimalist: A psychologist's viewpoint.Masanao Toda - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):235-235.
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  • Should the quest for optimality worry us?Nils-Eric Sahlin - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):231-231.
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  • Don't just sit there, optimise something.J. H. P. Paelinck - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):230-230.
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  • Complexity and optimality.Dauglas A. Miller & Steven W. Zucker - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):227-228.
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  • Two dynamic criteria for validating claims of optimality.Geoffrey F. Miller - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):228-229.
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  • The example of psychology: Optimism, not optimality.Daniel S. Levine - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):225-226.
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  • Straining the word “optimal”.James E. Mazur - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):227-227.
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  • Natural science, social science and optimality.Oleg Larichev - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):224-225.
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  • Why optimality is not worth arguing about.Stephen E. G. Lea - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):225-225.
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  • Optimality and constraint.David A. Helweg & Herbert L. Roitblat - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):222-223.
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  • Types of optimality: Who is the steersman?Michael E. Hyland - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):223-224.
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  • Natural selection doesn't have goals, but it's the reason organisms do.Martin Daly - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):219-220.
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  • Organisms, scientists and optimality.Michael Davison - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):220-221.
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  • Criteria for optimality.Michel Cabanac - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):218-218.
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  • Some optimality principles in evolution.James F. Crow - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):218-219.
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  • Optimality as a mathematical rhetoric for zeroes.Fred L. Bookstein - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):216-217.
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  • Optimality as an evaluative standard in the study of decision-making.Jonathan Baron - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):216-216.
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  • The quest for optimality: A positive heuristic of science?Paul J. H. Schoemaker - 1991 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (2):205-215.
    This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of one of science's most pervasive and flexible metaprinciples;optimalityis used to explain utility maximization in economics, least effort principles in physics, entropy in chemistry, and survival of the fittest in biology. Fermat's principle of least time involves both teleological and causal considerations, two distinct modes of explanation resting on poorly understood psychological primitives. The rationality heuristic in economics provides an example from social science of the potential biases arising from the extreme flexibility of (...)
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  • Representations and cognition.H. L. Roitblat - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):394-406.
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  • Expectancy: The endogenous source of anticipatory activities, including “pseudoconditioned” responses.Patrick J. Sheafor - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):387-389.
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  • In the beginning was the word.J. E. R. Staddon - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):390-391.
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  • Animal versus human minds.H. S. Terrace - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):391-392.
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  • Internal representations and indeterminacy: A skeptical view.William R. Uttal - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):392-393.
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  • Mind the brain.Martha Wilson - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):393-393.
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  • The heuristic value of representation.Thomas R. Zentall - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):393-394.
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  • Memory representations in animals: Some metatheoretical issues.Roy Lachman & Janet L. Lachman - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):380-381.
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  • Cognitive psychology's representation of behaviorism.A. W. Logue - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):381-382.
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  • A la représentation du temps perdu.John C. Marshall - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):382-383.
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  • Some thoughts on the proper foundations for the study of cognition in animals.Lynn Nadel - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):383-384.
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  • On the content of representations.R. J. Nelson - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):384-384.
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  • Premature closure of controversial issues concerning animal memory representations.William A. Roberts - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):384-385.
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  • Representation: A concept that fills no gaps.Robert Epstein - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):377-378.
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  • Representations as metaphiers.Julian Jaynes - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):379-380.
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  • Memory and rules in animal serial learning.E. J. Capaldi - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):373-373.
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  • Behaviorism's new cognitive representations: Paradigm regained.Arthur C. Danto - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):375-375.
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  • The informational character of representations.Fred Dretske - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):376-377.
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  • Misrepresenting behaviorism.Marc N. Branch - 1982 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (3):372-373.
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  • On the importance of individual differences in hypnotic ability.Kenneth S. Bowers & Thomas M. Davidson - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3):468-469.
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  • When is a reflex not a reflex? The riddle of behavioral-state control.J. A. Hobson, R. Lydic & H. A. Baghdoyan - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3):426-448.
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  • Reciprocal interaction in sleep cycle control: Description, yes; explanation, no.Paul A. M. van Dongen - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3):424-425.
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  • A new role for FTG neurons?Robert P. Vertes - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3):425-426.
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  • Location of the systems generating REM sleep: Lateral versus medial pons.Jerome M. Siegel & Dennis J. McGinty - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3):420-421.
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  • State control: Changing tools and language.M. Steriade - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3):421-423.
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  • Ascending cholinergic and serotonergic control of the electrocorticogram: Do I see a ghost?C. H. Vanderwolf - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3):423-424.
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  • Is there a choice in “Hobson's choice”?Arnold B. Scheibel - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3):418-419.
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  • The REM generator: Here, there, and everywhere?Priyattam J. Shiromani & J. Christian Gillin - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3):419-420.
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  • Vasotocin: Neurohumoral control of the reciprocal-interaction model?J. R. Normanton - 1986 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9 (3):416-417.
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