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Scientific Discovery: Case Studies

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Scientific Judgment: Creativity and Discovery in Scientific Thought
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    Chapter 2 Discussion of Wartofsky’s Paper
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    Chapter 3 The Rational Explanation of Historical Discoveries
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    Chapter 4 The Legitimation of Scientific Belief: Theory Justification By Copernicus
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    Chapter 5 Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel: Informal Communication and the Aristocratic Context of Discovery
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    Chapter 6 The Clock Metaphor in the History of Psychology
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    Chapter 7 The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Scientific Work: Charles Darwin’s Early Thought
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    Chapter 8 Ought Philosophers Consider Scientific Discovery? A Darwinian Case-Study
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    Chapter 9 Theory Construction in Genetics
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    Chapter 10 Discovery in the Biomedical Sciences: Logic or Irrational Intuition?
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    Chapter 11 Comment on Schaffner
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    Chapter 12 Reply to Maull
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    Chapter 13 Reductionistic Research Strategies and Their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy
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    Chapter 14 The Discovery of a New Quantum Theory
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    Chapter 15 The Personal Character of the Discovery of Mechanisms in Cloud Physics
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    Chapter 16 The Structure of Discovery: Evolution of Structural Accounts of Chemical Bonding
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    Chapter 17 The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses and the Development of Plate Tectonic Theory
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    Chapter 18 Hess’s Development of His Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis
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Chapter title
Reductionistic Research Strategies and Their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy
Chapter number 13
Book title
Scientific Discovery: Case Studies
Published by
Springer, Dordrecht, January 1980
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-9015-9_13
Book ISBNs
978-9-02-771093-2, 978-9-40-099015-9
Authors

William C. Wimsatt, Wimsatt, William C.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 3%
Unknown 31 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 13%
Professor 2 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 3%
Student > Master 1 3%
Unknown 24 75%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 2 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 6%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Social Sciences 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 24 75%