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Informationen zum Autor Dean Keith Simonton is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of nine books, including Genius, Creativity, and Leadership (1984), Scientific Genius (Cambridge 1988), Psychology, Science, and History (1990), Greatness (1994), Origins of Genius (1999) and Great Psychologists and their Times (2002). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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? This book provides an answer not by choosing one explanation and ignoring the others! but rather by unifying all four perspectives into a single theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction: scientific creativity; 2. Creative products; 3. Combinatorial processes; 4. Scientific activity; 5. Creative scientists; 6. Scientific discovery; 7. Consolidation: creativity in science; References; Index.
