How to Foster Scientists’ Creativity

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ID21243778
AuthorsSeungbae Park (0000-0001-5421-9700, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume9
Issue2
Pages116-125
Publication date2016-12-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCreativity Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2345-0487 • E-ISSN: 2345-0479
PublisherVilnius Gediminas Technical University (PUBLISHER • LT)
DOI10.3846/23450479.2016.1220987
OpenAlexW2567110351
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

Scientific progress can be credited to creative scientists, who constantly ideate new theories and experiments. I explore how the three central positions in philosophy of science – scientific realism, scientific pessimism, and instrumentalism – are related to the practical issue of how scientists’ creativity can be fostered. I argue that realism encourages scientists to entertain new theories and experiments, pessimism discourages them from doing so, and instrumentalism falls in between realism and pessimism in terms of its effects on scientists’ creativity. Therefore, scientists should accept realism and reject both pessimism and instrumentalism for the sake of scientific creativity and progress

Creativity · Epistemology · Instrumentalism · Pessimism · Philosophy of science · Realism · Scientific progress · Scientific realism · Scientific theory · Sociology · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Science and Climate Studies · Social Psychology

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