Heuristic

Aristotle on science as problem solving

The paper provides an interpretation of Aristotle’s view on scientific inquiry as problem solving. It tackles passages where
Aristotle emphasises the role that the problem-solving activity has in science, and where he describes the history of humans’
problem-solving activity and the historical development of natural science as a problem-solving activity. Further, the paper
examines Aristotle’s practice of raising, assessing and solving problems as well as the heuristic procedures he employs to

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