Becoming a successful scientist: strategic thinking for scientific discovery

We reflect on the typical sequence of complex emotions associated with the process of scientific discovery. It is proposed that the same sequence is found to underlie many forms of media entertainment, albeit substantially scaled down. Hence, a distinct theory of intellectual entertainment is put forward. The seemingly timeless presence of multiple forms of intellectual entertainment finds its roots in a positive moral approval of the self of itself.

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Computational Models of Scientific Discovery: Do They Compute?

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/030635 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 34 (10) ◽

pp. 895-897 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Robert J. Sternberg

Keyword(s):

Computational Models ◽

Scientific Discovery

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Artificial intelligence research strategies in the light of AI models of scientific discovery

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e510382009-001 ◽

1982 ◽

Author(s):

Hervert A. Simon

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Scientific Discovery ◽

Research Strategies ◽

Artificial Intelligence Research

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Design Capability for Science-based Innovation

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2019.02.275 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

ROTHKÖTTER Stefanie ◽

Craig C. GARNER ◽

Sándor VAJNA

Keyword(s):

Literature Review ◽

Scientific Discovery ◽

New Technology ◽

Academic Research ◽

Research Interest ◽

Design Practice ◽

Design Technology ◽

Innovation Potential ◽

Design Integration ◽

Cultural Constraints

In light of a growing research interest in the innovation potential that lies at the intersection of design, technology, and science, this paper offers a literature review of design initiatives centered on scientific discovery and invention. The focus of this paper is on evidence of design capabilities in the academic research environment. The results are structured along the Four Orders of Design, with examples of design-in-science initiatives ranging from (1) the design of scientific figures and (2) laboratory devices using new technology to (3) interactions in design workshops for scientists and (4) interdisciplinary design labs. While design capabilities have appeared in all four orders of design, there are barriers and cultural constraints that have to be taken into account for working at or researching these creative intersections. Modes of design integration and potentially necessary adaptations of design practice are therefore also highlighted.

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Language Matters: ‘Counsel’ in Early Modern and Modern Medicine

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0029 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ian Sabroe ◽

Phil Withington

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Early Modern ◽

Scientific Revolution ◽

Modern Medicine ◽

Francis Bacon ◽

Social Worlds ◽

Founding Fathers ◽

Human Understanding ◽

Successful Scientist

Francis Bacon is famous today as one of the founding fathers of the so-called ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century. Although not an especially successful scientist himself, he was nevertheless the most eloquent and influential spokesperson for an approach to knowledge that promised to transform human understanding of both humanity and its relationship with the natural and social worlds. The central features of this approach, as they emerged in Bacon’s own writings and the work of his protégés and associates after 1605, are equally well known. They include the importance of experiment, observation, and a sceptical attitude towards inherited wisdom (from the ‘ancients’ in general and Aristotle in particular).

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Immanuel Kant

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423632.003.0017 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Susan Brophy

Keyword(s):

Immanuel Kant ◽

Scientific Discovery ◽

State Of Exception ◽

Western Philosophy ◽

Industrial Capitalism ◽

Individual Freedom ◽

Philosophical Foundation ◽

Advanced Capitalism ◽

Moral Feeling ◽

Transcendental Idealist

Agamben’s complicated engagement with Immanuel Kant celebrates the brilliance of the German idealist’s thought by disclosing its condemnatory weight in Western philosophy. Kant was writing in the midst of burgeoning industrial capitalism, when each new scientific discovery seemed to push back the fog of religion in favour of science and reason; meanwhile Agamben’s work develops in concert with the crises of advanced capitalism and borrows significantly from those philosophers who endured the most demoralising upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century. Whatever lanugo Kant was eager for us to shed in the name of individual freedom,1 Agamben sees in this crusade for civic maturity a surprising prescience: ‘[I]t is truly astounding how Kant, almost two centuries ago and under the heading of a sublime “moral feeling,” was able to describe the very condition that was to become familiar to the mass societies and great totalitarian states of our time’ (HS 52). To a remarkable extent, Agamben finds that Kant’s transcendental idealist frame of thought lays the philosophical foundation for the state of exception.

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