Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521543699)

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.

Author: Dean Keith Simonton
ISBN-10: 052154369X
ISBN-13: 9780521543699
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/03/2004
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.96w x 0.67d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 874