Scientific Discovery
Subtitle: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: February 24, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780262620529
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Philosophy of mind; Cognitive Psychology; Microscopes & Microscopy; Miscellaneous Software; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Computers - Other Applications; Creative ability in science; History; Methodology; Philosophy; Science; Psychology
First sentence: A hypothesis that will be central to our inquiry is that the mechanisms of scientific discovery are not peculiar to that activity but can be subsumed as special cases of the general mechanisms of problem solving.