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Across three chapters, I discuss the rationale behind how a theorist invents new theory and comes to believe it is worth introducing to the scientific community at large. In the first chapter, I propose a systematic metaphor to treat science as a network of interconnected theoretical objects. The second chapter is a conceptual history of cosmology from Descartes' Vortex Theory to the present-day ... read moreinflationary program, meant to motivate the need for a theory-first understanding of scientific progress. The third and final chapter features my main philosophical argument; I propose four idealized models of a scientific theorist and discuss each of their appeals and drawbacks, using cosmological examples drawn from the previous chapter.read less
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