Title: Scientific discovery : logic and tinkering /
Authors: Kantorovich, Aharon, 1937-
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Science Methodology; Science Philosophy; Creative ability in science.; Serendipity in science.; Science methods
Contents: Part 1: In search for logic of discovery -- Chapter 1: Exposing and generating -- What is a discovery? -- The products of scientific discovery -- The kinds of discovery processes -- The creative element in discovery and the issues of realism -- Chapter 2: The scope of method -- The nature and function of method -- Inferring and reconstructing -- Chapter 3: Why did traditional philosophy of science ignore discovery? -- The distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification -- Objections to the distinction -- Part 2: Discovery naturalized -- The prepared mind: cultivating the unintentional -- Chapter 4: Philosophy of science: from justification and explanation -- Normative philosophy of science: justification relativized -- From description to explanation -- Explanatory philosophy of science -- Normative naturalism: shallow vs. deep theories of scientific rationality -- Chapter 5: An evolutionary theory of discovery: in search for the unexpected --^