Creativity in Science : Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist
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Book Description
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.
About the Author
Dean Keith Simonton is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of nine books, such as Genius, Creativity, and Leadership [Harvard, 1984], Scientific Genius [Cambridge 1988], Psychology, Science, and History [Yale 1990], Greatness [Guilford, 1994], Origins of Genius [Oxford, 1999] and Great Psychologists and Their Times [APA].
Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist,Dean Keith Simonton,Cambridge University Press,052154369X,Creative Ability,Creative ability in science,General,Philosophy & Social Aspects,Research & Methodology,Science,Science/Mathematics,Cognition & cognitive psychology,Philosophy of science,Psychology & Psychiatry / General
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