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The cognitive science of Feynmen

Paul Thagard: The cognitive science of science: Explanation, discovery, and conceptual change. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012, 376pp, $40.00, £27.95 HB

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Chandrasekharan, S. The cognitive science of Feynmen. Metascience 22, 647–652 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9746-x

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