Models of Discovery and Creativity

by Joke Meheus

Book Overview

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 romanticism led to the famous opposition between the context of discovery and the context of justification, culminating in a view that banned discovery from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904813420X
• ISBN13: 9789048134205
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"