Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!aurora!shafto From: shafto@aurora.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.research,sci.med,talk.rumors,misc.headlines Subject: Re: Definition of science Message-ID: <768@aurora.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 11:55:43 EDT Article-I.D.: aurora.768 Posted: Thu Jul 9 11:55:43 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 01:32:56 EDT References: <6693@allegra.UUCP> <1664@tekcrl.TEK.COM> <1084@aecom.YU.EDU> <485@sol.ARPA> Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 14 Xref: utgpu sci.research:175 sci.med:2277 talk.rumors:790 misc.headlines:909 For an interesting perspective on the nature of science, more or less in the spirit of Lakatos (& with an epigram from Lakatos's _Proofs and Refutations_, at least in the draft that I've seen), see the forthcoming or recently published Scientific Discovery: An Account of the Creative Processes by Patrick W. Langley, Herbert A. Simon, Gary L. Bradshaw, & Jan M. Zytkow MIT Press