LEADER 03982nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910453754003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-28054-X 010 $a1-4356-6565-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000539278 035 $a(OCoLC)251620972 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10251677 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000131940 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11937075 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131940 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10027863 035 $a(PQKB)10658215 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338942 035 $a(OCoLC)251620972$z(OCoLC)539419766$z(OCoLC)646764027$z(OCoLC)764496693$z(OCoLC)961538741$z(OCoLC)962605882$z(OCoLC)966145605$z(OCoLC)991966176$z(OCoLC)992087935$z(OCoLC)1037925582$z(OCoLC)1038620166$z(OCoLC)1045494468$z(OCoLC)1055367789$z(OCoLC)1058153624$z(OCoLC)1062977600$z(OCoLC)1081194810 035 $a(OCoLC-P)251620972 035 $a(MaCbMITP)7967 035 $a(PPN)170238067 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338942 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10251677 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000539278 100 $a20080325d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCreating scientific concepts$b[electronic resource] /$fNancy Nersessian 210 $aCambridge, MA $cMIT Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-14105-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [219]-243) and index. 330 $aAn 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 image of novel concepts and profound insight bursting forth in a blinding flash of inspiration is mistaken. Instead, novel concepts are shown to arise out of the interplay of three factors: an attempt to solve specific problems; the use of conceptual, analytical, and material resources provided by the cognitive-social-cultural context of the problem; and dynamic processes of reasoning that extend ordinary cognition.Focusing on the third factor, Nersessian draws on cognitive science research and historical accounts of scientific practices to show how scientific and ordinary cognition lie on a continuum, and how problem-solving practices in one illuminate practices in the other. Her investigations of scientific practices show conceptual change as deriving from the use of analogies, imagistic representations, and thought experiments, integrated with experimental investigations and mathematical analyses. She presents a view of constructed models as hybrid objects, serving as intermediaries between targets and analogical sources in bootstrapping processes. Extending these results, she argues that these complex cognitive operations and structures are not mere aids to discovery, but that together they constitute a powerful form of reasoning--model-based reasoning--that generates novelty. This new approach to mental modeling and analogy, together with Nersessian's cognitive-historical approach, make Creating Scientific Concepts equally valuable to cognitive science and philosophy of science. 606 $aCreative ability in science 606 $aModel-based reasoning 606 $aDiscoveries in science 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCreative ability in science. 615 0$aModel-based reasoning. 615 0$aDiscoveries in science. 676 $a500 700 $aNersessian$b Nancy J$052551 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453754003321 996 $aCreating scientific concepts$91957635 997 $aUNINA