Scientific Failure
Allen I. Janis(Author)
Tamara Horowitz(Editor)
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published on 9. December 1993
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-8476-7806-8 (ISBN)
Description
The enthusiasm and uncertainty with which a newly proposed scientific theory is received immediately encourages some scientists to disprove the theory and others to expand upon it. These tangent efforts are a very valuable result of scientific research, whether the original ideas are correct or not. Scientific Failure focuses on the successes that have been made out of failed theories.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8476-7806-8 (9780847678068)
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Persons
Tamara Horowitz is professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and the co-editor of Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1991). Allen I. Janis is professor of physics at the University of Pittsburgh.