Product Description: 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...read more

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Product Description: Conceptual change continues to be a central concern of many of the disciplines that participate in the learning sciences. In this special issue, conceptual change is studied from a variety of perspectives, including: * Cognitive development -- concerning the nature of children's concepts, how they relate to adult concepts, and how they develop...read more

Product Description: For some time now the philosophy of science has been undergoing a major transfor­ mation. It began when the 'received view' of scientific knowledge -that developed by logical positivists and their intellectual descendants - was challenged as bearing little resemblance to and having little relevance for the understanding of real science...read more