Organisation and Scientific Discovery

The book takes the view that discovery is the outcome of successful science, and that organisations play a central role in facilitating or inhibiting discovery. John Hurley argues against the theory that creativity only leads to scientific discovery and suggests a model of the processes leading to discovery including both individual and organisational processes.

John Hurley is the author of Organisation and Scientific Discovery, published by Wiley.

Preface

vii

(6)

Acknowledgements

xiii

1 Discovery and Organisation in Science

1

(17)

2 Method, Organisation and Philosophy in Discovery

18

(21)

3 The Importance of the Individual in Science

39

(19)

4 The Eminent Scientists and their Organisations

58

(32)

5 Organisational Aspects of Freedom and Chance in Relation to Discovery

80

(18)

6 Some Considerations on the Organisation of Discovery-Related Science

98

(39)

7 The Discovery Zone

137

(14)

References

151

(8)

Appendix A

159

(1)

Appendix B

160

(2)

Appendix C

162

(6)

Index

168

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Organisation and Scientific Discovery

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