Models of discovery and creativity
By: Joke Meheus, Thomas Nickles, editors
Series: Origins (Kluwer Academic Publishers) -- 3; Origins (Kluwer Academic Publishers) -- 3.
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9789048134205
Subjects: Creative ability; Forschungsmethode; Kreativität; Entdeckung; Discoveries in science; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unexpected discoveries, graded structures, and the difference between acceptance and neglect  -- Hanne Anderson; title: Conceptual comparison and conceptual innovation  -- Harold I. Brown; title: Discovering mechanisms in molecular biology :; title: finding and fixing incompleteness and incorrectness  -- Lindley Darden; title: On the role of thought-experiments in mathematical discovery  -- Eduard Glas; title: Experimental systems, investigative pathways, and the nature of discovery  -- Frederic L. Holmes; title: Abduction as a heuristic constraint  -- Scott A. Kleiner; title: Creative abduction and hypothesis withdrawl  -- Lorenzo Magnani; title: Conceptual change :; title: creativity, cognition, and culture  -- Nancy J. Nersessian; title: The strange story of scientific method  -- Thomas Nickles; title: Tradition and innovation :; title: exploring and transforming conceptual structures  -- Matti Sintonen; title: A purposeful alliance in the service of creative research :; title: the network of vitamin investigators -- Petra Werner.