The Problem of Developing Heuristic Methods of Cognition based on the Theory of Scientific Creativity of M.K. Petrov

The philosophical heritage of M.K. Petrov includes a number of important ideas, the study of which makes it possible to identify the essential features of scientific creativity. An important achievement of M.K. Petrov is the study of the process of bisociation in relation to scientific creativity. The study of cognitive and socio-cultural aspects of scientific creativity makes it possible to resist various types of deviations in scientific activity (plagiarism, guestwriting, ghost management, etc.). The essential level of scientific creativity is an individual creative search, the productivity of which depends on the potential of the individual (talent). The individual nature of creativity requires a non-standard approach to the assimilation and application of an array of disciplinary knowledge created by the collective efforts of certain groups of the scientific community. In this context, bisociation appears as a scientific method of a sufficiently high rank in the hierarchy of methods of scientific creativity. The results obtained by M.K.Petrov are the tools that allow developing certain creative techniques to the level of general scientific heuristic methods of cognition.