Models of Discovery and Creativity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meheus, J. (Editor), Nickles, T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity ; 3
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Science.

Since the origin of the modern sciences, our views on discovery and creativity had a remarkable history. Originally, discovery was seen as an integral part of methodology and the logic of discovery as algorithmic or nearly algorithmic. During the nineteenth century, conceptions in line with romantic...