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Creating scientific concepts

"How do novel scientific concepts arise? In Creating Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer this central but virtually unasked question in the problem of conceptual change. She argues that the popular image of novel concepts and profound insight bursting forth in a blinding flash...

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Autor principal: Nersessian, Nancy J.
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc%5Flibrary=BVB01&doc%5Fnumber=016759615&line%5Fnumber=0002&func%5Fcode=DB%5FRECORDS&service%5Ftype=MEDIA
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0815/2008013831.html
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc%5Flibrary=BVB01&doc%5Fnumber=016759615&line%5Fnumber=0001&func%5Fcode=DB%5FRECORDS&service%5Ftype=MEDIA
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Creativity in conceptual change: a cognitive-historical approach
  • Model-based reasoning practices: historical exemplar
  • Model-based reasoning practices: protocol study exemplar
  • The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning practices: mental modeling
  • Representation and reasoning: analogy, imagery, thought experiment
  • Creativity in conceptual change.