Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research

by Robert C. Richardson and William Bechtel

Book Overview

Discovering Complexity offers an account of scientific discovery that aims to be psychologically and historically realistic. Drawing on cases from a number of life sciences, including biochemistry, genetics, and neuroscience, this study of the dynamics of theory development focuses on two psychological heuristics, decomposition and localization. William Bechtel and Robert Richardson identify a number of "choice-points" that scientists confront in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691087628
• ISBN13: 9780691087627
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"