Heuristic View

Emiliano Ippoliti completed his PhD in Logic and Epistemology at Sapienza University of Rome in 2004. From 2006 to 2008, he held a postdoctoral position at Sapienza’s Department of Philosophy and was a visiting scholar at Penn State University in 2008. He is currently Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses primarily on two areas: 1) Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics: He works on heuristics in mathematics and science, the logic and philosophy of discovery, and the broader epistemology of the formal sciences. He is the founder of the “Logic & Knowledge Network” (est. 2002) (https://logicandknowledge.substack.com); 2) Philosophy and Finance: His work investigates the conceptual, methodological, and epistemological dimensions of financial theory and practice. He is the founder of “Phinance: The Philosophy and Finance Network” (est. 2020) (https://phinancenet.substack.com).Fabio Sterpetti is Researcher in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where he received his PhD in Philosophy in 2012. From 2013 to 2015 he has been Postdoctoral Researcher in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the same University. He then has been Postdoctoral Researcher in Logic and Philosophy of Science at Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy (2017-2018). He has been Contract Professor in Philosophy of Science (2016-2017) and in Logic (2017-2018) at the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on the realism/anti-realism debate in general philosophy of science and on some related issues, such as the difficulty of making scientific realism compatible with a naturalist stance. He is also interested in the debates on the method of mathematics and on the nature of logic, and in the analysis of how the heuristic view of method, especially in the form developed by Carlo Cellucci, can contribute to those debates. He co-edited, with Marta Bertolaso, the volume: “A Critical Reflection on Automated Science” (Springer, 2020), and, with Emiliano Ippoliti and Thomas Nickles, the volume: “Models and Inferences in Science” (Springer, 2016). His articles have appeared in various scientific journals, such as Synthese; History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences; Foundations of Science; Philosophia; Topoi; Axiomathes.

• 1 The Heuristic View: Historical Roots and Emerging Perspectives (Emiliano Ippoliti, Fabio Sterpetti).- 2 The Two Paradigms of Logic (Carlo Cellucci).- 3 Lakatos’ Contribution to the Philosophy of Mathematics (Donald Gillies).- 4 Lakatos, Cellucci, and Heuristic Philosophy of Mathematics (Otavio Bueno).- 5 Problem-Driven Mathematical Explanations in Science (Alan Baker).- 6 Deductive Theories and Non-Deductive Knowledge (Alexander C. Paseau).- 7 Mathematics as Objective Knowledge: Discovering How to Make the World Intelligible (Lorenzo Magnani).- 8 Identifying Multiple Levels of Heuristic Reasoning Used in Scientific Model Construction: A Framework Grounded in Imagistic Processing (John J. Clement).- 9 The Efficient Market Hypothesis: A Heuristic Appraisal (Emiliano Ippoliti).- 10 From Physics to Metaphysics: Aristotle’s Heuristic Path (Diana Quarantotto).- 11 There Is a Logician at the Desk! A New Profile for an Old Category of Scholars (Miriam Franchella).- 12 Teaching Mathematics and the Two-Language Problem: Toward Heuristic Reasoning Being the Praxis of the Mathematics Classroom Experience (Marshall Gordon).- 13 The Heuristic View and Anti-Exceptionalism about Logic (Fabio Sterpetti).