Ignorance : how it drives science / Stuart Firestein.
By: Firestein, Stuart
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TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: viii, 195 p. ; 19 cm.ISBN: 9780199828074 (hardback); 0199828075 (hardback).Subject(s): Science -- Philosophy | Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) | Discoveries in scienceDDC classification: 501/.9 Other classification: SCI000000 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 501.9 F514 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003135969 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A short view of ignorance -- Finding out -- Limits, uncertainty, impossibility, and other minor problems -- Unpredicting -- The quality of ignorance -- You and ignorance -- Case histories.
The author contends that it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. In fact, "not knowing," results in the puzzling over thorny questions or inexplicable data, that gets researchers into the lab early and keeps them there late. Includes four case histories--in cognitive psychology, theoretical physics, astronomy, and neuroscience.
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