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Wissenschaftliche Kreativität - Empirische und wissenschaftspraktische Hinweise
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Abstract Scientific creativity, i. e. the production of new and socially effective empirical knowledge,
can itself be subjected to empirical analysis. Research on the determinants of creative work
in science suggests that the internal and external world of creative scientists is characterised
by a series ... view more
Scientific creativity, i. e. the production of new and socially effective empirical knowledge,
can itself be subjected to empirical analysis. Research on the determinants of creative work
in science suggests that the internal and external world of creative scientists is characterised
by a series of tensions or "oppositions of forces" which "normally" cannot be integrated.
Conversely, creative work in science can be understood as the provision of new answers to
scientific problems where conventional answers are no longer sufficient to reduce incongruities
between cognitive, affective and social standards of satisfactory problem solution.... view less
Keywords
science studies; creativity; science; scientific progress; knowledge; scientific activity; sociology of knowledge; philosophy of science
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Document language
German
Publication Year
1977
Page/Pages
p. 383-404
Journal
Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, 8 (1977) 2
ISSN
0044-2216
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike