Representational Change and the Use of Metaphors in Problem Solving

This book addresses a longstanding impasse in problem solving research: if structured mental representations of problems are required for solving them, how do those arise and, if needed, change? The book argues that established theories underestimate this question due to methodological requirements.

Autorentext

Benjamin Angerer is Research Associate at the Institutes of Philosophy, Computer Science, and Centre for Digital Education, University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Problem-solving research and its struggle with representational change 3. Metaphors to the rescue? 4. The domain of iterated mental paper folding 5. A single case of learning how to represent folds 6. Back to theory 7. Associations, routines, and transient spaces: sketches of a new framework 8. Conclusion