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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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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