Stuart Firestein

Failure

Why Science Is So Successful

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Failure is a book that seeks to make science more appealing by exposing its faults. In this sequel to Ignorance, Stuart Firestein shows us that scientific enterprise is riddled with failures, and that this is not only necessary but good.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 186mm x 136mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780199390106
• ISBN-10: 019939010X
• Artikelnr.: 42797084

Autorenporträt

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. He was also recently named an AAAS Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1. Introduction
2. Failing to Define Failure
3. Fail Better: Advice from Samuel Beckett
4. The Scientific Basis of Failure
5. The Unreasonable Success of Failure
6. The Integrity of Failure
7. Teaching Failure
8. The Arc of Failure
9. The Scientific Method of Failure
10. Failure in the Clinic
11. How to Love Your Data When It's Wrong: Negative Results
12. Philosopher of Failure
13. Funding Failure
14. A Plurality of Failures
15. CODA
Notes
Index