
Transforming Nature
Ethics, Invention and Discovery
Michael E. Gorman(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 4. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVIII, 389 pages
978-1-4613-7589-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is but the draft of a draft, as Melville said of Moby Dick. There is no prose here to match Melville's, but the scope is worthy of the great white whale. No one could possibly write a comprehensive, authoritative book on ethics, invention and discovery. I have not tried to, though I hope my bibliography will be a useful starting point for other explorers, and the cases and ideas presented here will keep people arguing for years. Although this book is nothing like a textbook, it is written for my students. I was trained as a teacher of psychology in graduate school and ended-up, by one of those happy chances of the job market, teaching psychology to engineering students rather than psyche majors. My dissertation and early research were in the psychology of scientific hypothesis-testing (see Chapter 2). When I team-taught a course with W. Bernard Carlson, a historian of technology, I saw how cognitive psychology might be applied to the study of invention. Bernie and I received funding from the National Science Foundation for three years of research on the invention of the telephone; a portion of that work is described in Chapter 3.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XVIII, 389 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-7589-0 (9781461375890)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-5657-2
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Content
1 Discovery.- 2 Understanding Discovery.- 3 Creating A New World.- 4 Ethics, Invention And Discovery.- 5 Teaching Ethics, Discovery and Invention.