title: Societies of minds: Science as Distributed Computing creator: Thagard, P. subject: Cognitive Psychology subject: Artificial Intelligence subject: Philosophy of Science description: Science is studied in very different ways by historians, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists. Not only do researchers from different fields apply markedly different methods, they also tend to focus on apparently disparate aspects of science. At the farthest extremes, we find on one side some philosophers attempting logical analyses of scientific knowledge, and on the other some sociologists maintaining that all knowledge is socially constructed. This paper is an attempt to view history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology of science from a unified perspective. date: 1993 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: text/html identifier: http://cogprints.org/676/1/Societies.html identifier: Thagard, P. (1993) Societies of minds: Science as Distributed Computing. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/676/