Scientific Creation, Emotion, Imagination And Intuitive Thinking Of

The generation and development of human thinking run through the wholeof the activities of human practice and cognition. Emotion, imagination, andintuition and other non-logical ways of thinking, as important parts of humanthinking, penetrate the scientific creation all the time. Scientific creation isessentially the product of logical thinking of the scientific researchers, butemotion, imagination and intuition, though dominated by logical thinking, alsoplay an important role in the scientific activity. Emotion, imagination, andintuition are indispensible in scientific creation and, compared with logicalthinking, the non-logical thinking methods are even more effective. There areplenty of examples of Non-logical thinking playing a crucial part in the successof scientific creation.This thesis analyzes, from the perspective of scientific philosophy,cognitive science and contemporary cognitive psychology combined, thedifferent effects of emotion, imagination, and intuition on different stages ofscientific creation to have a revelation of the key role of them in the activities ofscientific creation. It also puts forward the purpose and methods of thecultivation of such non-logical thinking. The thesis falls into five parts: The firstsection is the introduction, which mainly presents the background of the study aswell as its significance; the second part, i.e. the chapter one, expounds thedefinitions of emotion, imagination and intuition and the features of them, aswell as the related terms of creation and correlation. The chapter two discussesthe effects of emotion, imagination, and intuition on different stages of scientificcreation to show their importance in the scientific activities. The third chapterputs forward the purpose and methods of the cultivation of the non-logical waysof thinking in question. The last part makes a brief conclusion of the study.Through the analysis in the thesis, the author tries to prove that thenon-logical ways of thinking, i.e. emotion, imagination, and intuition, play acrucial role in the activities of scientific creation. It is concluded that scientific inventions and discoveries are by no means a simple combination of logicalthinking and non-logical thinking. Instead, the two kinds of thinking need tohave a dynamic interaction with each other. Therefore, it would be conducive forthe scientific researchers to raise their emotion, imagination and intuition andhave them play a positive role in the scientific creation so that they can help theresearchers to promote their scientific creativity, which in turn promote theinventions and discoveries and the development of science.