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