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Creating Scientific Concepts
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NERSESSIAN, Nancy J.

An account that analyzes the dynamic reasoning processes implicated in a fundamental problem of creativity in science: how does genuine novelty emerge from existing representations?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 i…

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9780262280549
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1 online resource (xiv, 251 pages) :illustrations
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Interdisciplinarity in the making :models and methods in frontier science
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Nersessian, Nancy J.,

A cognitive ethnography of how bioengineering scientists create innovative modeling methods. In this first full-scale, long-term cognitive ethnography by a philosopher of science, Nancy J. Nersessian offers an account of how scientists at the interdisciplinary frontiers of bioengineering create novel problem-solving methods. Bioengineering scientists model complex dynamical biological systems u…

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9780262372275
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1 online resource (392 pages).
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Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science
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NERSESSIAN, Nancy J.

A cognitive ethnography of how bioengineering scientists create innovative modeling methods. In this first full-scale, long-term cognitive ethnography by a philosopher of science, Nancy J. Nersessian offers an account of how scientists at the interdisciplinary frontiers of bioengineering create novel problem-solving methods. Bioengineering scientists model complex dynamical biological system…

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9780262372275
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660.6 NER i
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Empirical Philosophy of Science Introducing Qualitative Methods into Philoso…
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WAGENKNECHT,SusannNERSESSIAN, Nancy J.ANDERSEN, Hanne

The book examines the emerging approach of using qualitative methods, such as interviews and field observations, in the philosophy of science. Qualitative methods are gaining popularity among philosophers of science as more and more scholars are resorting to empirical work in their study of scientific practices. At the same time, the results produced through empirical work are quite different f…

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978-3-319-18600-9
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VI, 171
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