On Scientific Discovery. The Erice Lectures 1977

Abstract

I. General Problems.- A Plea for Freeing the History of Scientific Discoveries from Myth.- Progress and Rationality in Research: Science from the Viewpoint of Popperian Methodology.- The Problems of Scientific Validation.- Science and Analogy.- Inductive Method and Scientific Discovery.- Scientific Discovery from the Viewpoint of Evolutionary Epistemology.- The Analytical (Quantitative) Theory of Science and its Implications for the Nature of Scientific Discovery.- Difficulties Inherent in a Pedagogy of Discovery in the Teaching of the Sciences.- Discovery and Vocation.- II. Case Studies.- Two Scientific Discoveries: Their Genesis and Destiny.- Logical and Psychological Aspects of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood.- The Discovery of Duodenal Ancylostoma and of its Pathogenic Power.- Weber and Maxwell on the Discovery of the Velocity of Light in Nineteenth Century Electrodynamics.- Cognitive Psychology, Scientific Creativity, and the Case Study Method.- Biographical Notes.- Name Index.

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