Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research

by Robert C. Richardson and William Bechtel

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Discovering Complexity offers an account of scientific discovery that aims to be psychologically and historically realistic. Drawing on cases from a number of life sciences, including biochemistry, genetics, and neuroscience, this study of the dynamics of theory development focuses on two psychological heuristics, decomposition and localization. William Bechtel and Robert Richardson identify a number of "choice-points" that scientists confront in...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691087628

ISBN13:9780691087627

Release Date:January 1993

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:308 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

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Behavioral Sciences Research Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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