MICHEL JOUVET: THE ENIGMA OF SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY

摘要

I would like to try to answer the question of this round-table discussion, "forty years of progress?" in a philosophical, epistemological way. Philosophically speaking, the enigma of scientific creativity is more fascinating than ever. There is a particular reason for that. Michel Jouvel mentioned Claude Bernard. Claude Bernard wrote once that in experimental science logic alone is never sufficient. There is something else than pure logic which is responsible for creativity in experimental science. The work of Michel Jouvel is a fascinating example of this "something else" which is true scientific creativity and is so difficult to capture.