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Ignorance
How It Drives Science
Buch von Stuart Firestein
Sprache: Englisch

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Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.
Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.
Über den Autor
Stuart Firestein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where his highly popular course on ignorance invites working scientists to come talk to students each week about what they don't know. Dedicated to promoting science to a public audience, he serves as an advisor for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program for the Public Understanding of Science and was awarded the 2011 Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for excellence in scholarship and teaching.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Chapter 1. A Short View of Ignorance

  • Chapter 2. Finding Out

  • Chapter 3. Limits, Uncertainty, Impossibility, and Other Minor Problems

  • Chapter 4. Unpredicting

  • Chapter 5. The Quality of Ignorance

  • Chapter 6. Ignorance in Action: Case Histories

  • Chapter 7. Ignorance beyond the Lab

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780199828074
ISBN-10: 0199828075
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Firestein, Stuart
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Maße: 189 x 139 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Stuart Firestein
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.07.2012
Gewicht: 0,299 kg
Artikel-ID: 121048433
Über den Autor
Stuart Firestein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where his highly popular course on ignorance invites working scientists to come talk to students each week about what they don't know. Dedicated to promoting science to a public audience, he serves as an advisor for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program for the Public Understanding of Science and was awarded the 2011 Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for excellence in scholarship and teaching.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Chapter 1. A Short View of Ignorance

  • Chapter 2. Finding Out

  • Chapter 3. Limits, Uncertainty, Impossibility, and Other Minor Problems

  • Chapter 4. Unpredicting

  • Chapter 5. The Quality of Ignorance

  • Chapter 6. Ignorance in Action: Case Histories

  • Chapter 7. Ignorance beyond the Lab

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Geisteswissenschaften allgemein
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780199828074
ISBN-10: 0199828075
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Firestein, Stuart
Hersteller: Oxford University Press Inc
Maße: 189 x 139 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Stuart Firestein
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.07.2012
Gewicht: 0,299 kg
Artikel-ID: 121048433
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