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The Heuristic role of questions in the formation of research programmes: Copernicus’s heliocentric system
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The aim of this thesis is to develop a critical view about the notion of the heuristic in Lakatos’s methodology of research programmes. The heuristic is tried to be sterilized from its defects with an insight derived from different forms of theories dealing with questions. For that reason, a short survey which includes Socratic dialogues, Hintikka’s theory of interrogative games, van Fraassen’s theory of why-questions, and Laudan’s analogy between science and problem-solving activity is introduced. As a result, the heuristic is construed as the interrogative tools that an inquirer has to construct her theories and solve their problems. The Copernican Revolution is endeavoured to be reconstructed as a case study in the lights of the questions that Copernicus might pose to discover his heliocentric cosmology. Since the Copernican programme cannot be reduced to the theories of Copernicus alone, only the primitive form of this programme which could be associated with Copernicus is examined to check the verity of this newly formulated definition of the heuristic.
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S. Altuğ, “The Heuristic role of questions in the formation of research programmes: Copernicus’s heliocentric system,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2016.
