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Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist

Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist

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General PsychologyGeneral ScienceHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 052154369X
ISBN13: 9780521543699
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 3 2004
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.96 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
Where do major scientific breakthroughs come from? Do they arise from the logic of the scientific method, or do they result from flashes of genius? Are they the products of some mysterious zeitgeist, or spirit of the times, or do they emerge from chance or serendipity? Dean Simonton provides an answer, not by choosing one explanation and ignoring the others, but rather by unifying all four perspectives into a single theory in which chance plays the primary role, but with the significant involvement of logic, genius and zeitgeist.

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