Bibliograph

Ignorance, how it drives science, Stuart Firestein

Type

Label

Ignorance, how it drives science, Stuart Firestein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ignorance

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

752069074

Responsibility statement

Stuart Firestein

Sub title

how it drives science

Summary

"Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, 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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- 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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