Creating scientific concepts
By: Nancy Nersessian.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780262141055
Subjects: Creative ability in science; Model-based reasoning; Discoveries in science
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creativity in conceptual change; title: Model-based reasoning practices, historical exemplar; title: Model-based reasoning practices, protocol study exemplar; title: The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning practices; title: Representation and reasoning; title: Thought experiment; title: Creativity in conceptual change.