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SUMMARY:Finding: The Key to Discovery
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LOCATION:Heinrich-von-Kleist-Straße 22-28\, Bonn\, Germany\, 53113
DESCRIPTION:<p>The aim of my talk is to provide an outlook to a theory of scientific discovery with finding as the key notion. I take finding to entail more than encountering\, but less than discovering. I thereby propose a &bdquo\;thick&ldquo\; notion of finding possessing epistemic weight on its own\, and try to figure out what would constitute this epistemic weight. It turns out that imagination\, anticipation and what I call &bdquo\;instructive ignorance&ldquo\; are main constituents of finding. The analysis of finding will pave the way\, or so I hope\, to a theory of scientific discovery that &ndash\; contrary to some existing approaches to scientific discovery &ndash\; would be\, on the one hand\, comprehensive enough to explain the various phenomena that accompany scientific discoveries in a variety of cases\, and\, on the other hand\, also specific enough in order to account for the substantial difference between discovery and invention. Finally\, I illustrate my analysis of finding by the example of Einstein&rsquo\;s early finding of the Equivalence Principle.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Jan G. Michel:
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