How Scientific Concepts are Created (Book Review)

Here is a book review that seems to go hand in hand with The Black Swan. Better yet this book is about how White Swans materialize. (Click here to read full book review)

Article Introduction (Via My Mind On Books)

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 factors:

1. An attempt to solve specific problems;

2. The use of conceptual, analytical,

3 Material resources provided by the cognitive-social-cultural context of the problem;

4 Dynamic processes of reasoning that extend ordinary cognition.

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