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Serendipity Science - An Emerging Field and its Methods

English · Paperback / Softback

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This volume brings together for the first time the diverse threads within the growing field of serendipity research, to reflect both on the origins of this emerging field within different disciplines as well as its increasing influence as its own field with foundational texts and emerging practices.  The phenomenon of serendipity has been described in many ways since Horace Walpole initially coined the term in 1754 to categorize those discoveries that happen by "both accidents and sagacity". This book offers a sampling of perspectives from experts in serendipity research from organizational studies, management theory, information science and library studies, psychology, literature, computer science, social science, ethics, and the history and philosophy of science. Considerations about the importance and role of serendipity are being raised now across science (both empirical and theoretical) as well as practice (from art and innovation to leadership and governance), with ever more eyes looking closer at its significance in human history and the likelihood it will play a key, while unpredictable, role in forming our future. Serendipity Science represents an emerging, and also important and potentially necessary field of study, if we are to deal well as a society with our complex times and uncertain future.

List of contents

1. Serendipity Science - State of the Art.- 2. Organization and Management Theory.- 3. Information Sciences and the Super-Encountered.- 4. Serendipity in the Stacks.- 5. Serendipity and the Humanities.- 6. Serendipitous Science.- 7. The role of Serendipity in Culture and Place.- 8. Entrepreneurship.- 9. Creative Cognition.- 10. Philosophy and Scientific Serendipity.- 11. Serendipity and Ignorance Studies.- 12. Ethics of Innovation.

Product details

Assisted by Samantha Copeland (Editor), Wendy Ross (Editor), Martin Sand (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.07.2024
 
EAN 9783031335310
ISBN 978-3-0-3133531-0
No. of pages 234
Dimensions 155 mm x 14 mm x 235 mm
Weight 394 g
Illustrations XVII, 234 p. 9 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

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