Presents innovative strategies to manage and build software systems for generating new knowledge from large archaeological data sets
Describes new findings and models concerning the construction of theories and hypotheses in science
Brings together both normative and descriptive perspectives on the question of theory construction
Explores novel perspectives on the uses of models, inferences, and heuristic reasoning in theory-building
Develops a set of principles for how theories are constructed and refined
With a close examination of case studies in logic, mathematics, physics, biology, and psychology