附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-269) and index.
Part 1: In search for logic of discovery -- Chapter 1: Exposing and generating -- What is a discovery? -- The products of scientific discovery -- The kinds of discovery processes -- The creative element in discovery and the issues of realism -- Chapter 2: The scope of method -- The nature and function of method -- Inferring and reconstructing -- Chapter 3: Why did traditional philosophy of science ignore discovery? -- The distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification -- Objections to the distinction -- Part 2: Discovery naturalized -- The prepared mind: cultivating the unintentional -- Chapter 4: Philosophy of science: from justification and explanation -- Normative philosophy of science: justification relativized -- From description to explanation -- Explanatory philosophy of science -- Normative naturalism: shallow vs. deep theories of scientific rationality -- Chapter 5: An evolutionary theory of discovery: in search for the unexpected -- Evolutionary epistemology: taking natural selection seriously -- Blind variation: the principle of serendipity -- Some implications of the principle of serendipity -- Two landmarks of serendipity in physics -- Serendipitous discovery of natural phenomena -- Cultivating serendipity -- Chapter 6: Intrapsychic processes of creation -- A psychological theory of the creative process -- Implications of the theory -- Chapter 7: A socio-evolutionary theory of science -- Epistemic cooperation and the social dimension of discovery -- The social dimension of blind variation, selection and dissemination -- Has science liberated humankind from the tyranny of the genes? -- The tension between change and stability -- Implications for discovery -- Chapter 8: Tinkering and opportunism: the logic of creation -- Evolutionary tinkering in science -- Tool-oriented scientists: intellectual migration -- Tinkering in particle physics -- Chapter 9: Completing the picture: is there a role for the genotype-phenotype proc