Teaching about Discovery and Invention in Engineering

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 64, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 209-223

  Schum, David A ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346423478     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0040-1625(00)00081-0     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Dasgupta, S.: Technology and Creativity. Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
2. Cardwell, D.: The Norton History of Technology. W. W. Norton, New York, 1995.
3. Ochoa, G. and Corey, M.: The Timeline Book of Science. Ballantine Books, New York, 1995.
4. Coveny, P., and Highfield, R.: Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World, Fawcett-Columbine, New York, 1995.
5. Fogler, H., and LeBlanc, S.: Strategies for Creative Problem Solving. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995.
6. Petroski, H.: Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997.
7. Oliver, J.: The Incomplete Guide to the Art of Discovery. Columbia University Press, New York, 1991.
8. Edwards, D.: How to be More Creative. Occasional Productions, San Jose, CA, 1980.
9. Sternberg, R.: The Nature of Creativity: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 1991.
10. Csikszentmihalyi, M.: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. Harper Perennial, New York, 1997.
11. deBono, E.: Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step. Harper & Row, New York, 1990.
12. Boden, M., ed.: Dimensions of Creativity. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994.
13. Corben, H.: The Struggle to Understand: A History of Human Wonder and Discovery. Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1991.
14. Grudin, R.: The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation. Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1990.
15. Langley, P., Simon, H., Bradshaw, G., and Zytkow, J.: Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987.
16. Boden, M.: The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. Basic Books, New York, 1990.
17. Cotterill, R.: Enchanted Looms: Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1998.
18. Koestler, A.: The Act of Creation. Arkana, The Penguin Group, London, 1989.
19. Hadamard, J.: The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field, Dover, New York, 1954.
20. Eco, U., and Sebeok, T.: The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, IN, 1988.
21. Josephson, J., and Josephson, S.: Abductive Inference: Computation, Philosophy, Technology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994.
22. Root-Bernstein, S.: Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge. Harvard University Press, New York, 1989.
23. Kneale, W.: Probability and Induction. Oxford University Press, 1952
24. Oldroyd, D.: The Arch of Knowledge: An Introductory Study of the History of the Philosophy and Methodology of Science. Metheun, New York, 1986.
25. Eco, U.: Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypotheses on Three Types of Abduction, in The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. Eco, U., Sebeok, T., eds. University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, IN, 1988.
26. Sherrington, C.: Man on His Nature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1940.
27. Schrödinger, E.: What is Life: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1967.
28. Wigner, E.: Are We Machines? Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 113 (1969).
29. Eccles, J.: The Neurophysiological Basis of Mind. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1956.
30. Eccles, J.: Facing Reality: Philosophical Adventures by a Brain Scientist. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1970.
31. Edelman, G.: Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of the Mind. Basic Books, New York, 1992.
32. Crick, F.: The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1994.
33. Hebb. D.: The Organization of Behavior. Wiley & Sons, New York, 1949.
34. Hebb, D.: Essay on Mind. L. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1980.
35. Penrose, R.: The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics. Penguin Books, New York, 1991.
36. Penrose, R.: Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness. Oxford University Press, New York, 1994.
37. Penrose, R.: The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997.
38. Poncare, H.: Mathematical Creation, in The World of Mathematics. Vol. 4, J. Newman, ed. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1956, pp. 2041-2050.
39. Thagard, P.: Computational Philosophy of Science. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.
40. Boden, M.: The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. Basic Books, New York, 1990.
41. Boden, M., ed.: Dimensions of Creativity. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994.
42. Lakatos, I.: Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983.
43. Polya, G.: How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1973.
44. Lenat, D.: EURISKO: A Program that Learns New euristics and Domain Concepts, Artificial Intelligence 21, 61-98 (1983).
45. Hintikka, J.: Sherlock Holmes Formalized, in The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. U. Eco, and T. Sebeok, eds. University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, IN, 1988, pp. 170-178.
46. Hintikka, J., and Hintikka, M.: Sherlock Holmes Confronts Modern Logic: Toward a Theory of Information Seeking Through Questioning, in The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. U. Eco, and T. Sebeok, eds. University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, IN, 1988, pp. 154-169.
47. Briggs, J., and Peat, F.: Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness. Harper & Row, New York, 1989.
48. Holland, J.: Emergence: From Order to Chaos. Helix Books, New York, 1998.
49. Singer, J.: Mental Processes and Brain Architecture: Confronting the Complex Adaptive Systems of Human Thought (An Overview), in The Mind, The Brain and Complex Adaptive Systems. Proceedings Volume XXII, Sante Fe Institute of Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. H. Morowitz, and J. Singer, eds. Addison-Wesley, New York, 1995, pp. 1-9.
50. Crutchfleld, J.: Is Anything Ever New? in Complexity: Metaphors, Models, and Reality. Proceedings Volume XIX, Sante Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. G. Cowan, D. Pines, and D. Meltzer, eds. Addison-Wesley, New York, 1994, pp. 515-537.
51. Osborn, A.: Applied Imagination. Scribner, New York, 1953.
52. Gordon, W.: Synectics. Harper & Row, New York, 1961.
53. Zwicky, F.: Morphology of Propulsive Power, in Monographs on Morphological Research. Vol. 1. Society for Morphological Research, Pasadena, CA, 1962.
54. Altschuller, G.: Creativity as an Exact Science: The Theory of the Solution of Inventive Problems. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, London, 1984.