Creating Scientific Concepts

by Nancy J. Nersessian

Book Overview

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 of inspiration is mistaken. Instead, novel concepts are shown to arise out of the interplay of three factors: an attempt to solve specific problems; the use...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262141051
• ISBN13: 9780262141055
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher