Scientific Discovery: Case Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Scientific Judgment: Creativity and Discovery in Scientific Thought....Pages 1-16
Discussion of Wartofsky’s Paper....Pages 17-20
The Rational Explanation of Historical Discoveries....Pages 21-49
The Legitimation of Scientific Belief: Theory Justification By Copernicus....Pages 51-66
Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel: Informal Communication and the Aristocratic Context of Discovery....Pages 67-96
The Clock Metaphor in the History of Psychology....Pages 97-112
The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Scientific Work: Charles Darwin’s Early Thought....Pages 113-130
Ought Philosophers Consider Scientific Discovery? A Darwinian Case-Study....Pages 131-149
Theory Construction in Genetics....Pages 151-170
Discovery in the Biomedical Sciences: Logic or Irrational Intuition?....Pages 171-205
Comment on Schaffner....Pages 207-209
Reply to Maull....Pages 211-212
Reductionistic Research Strategies and Their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy....Pages 213-259
The Discovery of a New Quantum Theory....Pages 261-272
The Personal Character of the Discovery of Mechanisms in Cloud Physics....Pages 273-289
The Structure of Discovery: Evolution of Structural Accounts of Chemical Bonding....Pages 291-329
The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses and the Development of Plate Tectonic Theory....Pages 331-343
Hess’s Development of His Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis....Pages 345-366
Back Matter....Pages 367-382