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9780847678068

Scientific Failure

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  • ISBN13:

    9780847678068

  • ISBN10:

    0847678067

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1993-12-09
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

The contributors-philosophers, historians, and scientists-present famous scientific facts that began as mistaken theories, then they proceed to explore these and other discoveries that have resulted from failed ideas and how these failures relate to the development of science.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introductionp. 1
Methodology: The Role of Failure in Modern Scientific Development
The Value of Scientific Failurep. 13
The Frustrated State of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physicsp. 19
The Classical Failure to Account for Electromagnetic Arrows of Timep. 29
The Reorientation of Neoclassical Consumer Theoryp. 49
History: The Role of Failure in Early Scientific Development
Failure and Expertise in the Ancient Conception of an Artp. 81
Scholasticism and the Philosophy of Mind: The Failure of Aristotelian Psychologyp. 109
Social Scientific Perspectives
Converging Failures: Science Policy, Historiography and Social Theory of Early Molecular Biologyp. 141
The Determinants of a Scientist's Choice of Research Projectsp. 167
Contributorsp. 211
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