| Description |
210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
I. Methodology: The Role of Failure in Modern Scientific Development. 1. The Value of Scientific Failure / Allen I. Janis. 2. The Frustrated State of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics / James V. Maher. 3. The Classical Failure to Account for Electromagnetic Arrows of Time / Frank Arntzenius. 4. The Reorientation of Neoclassical Consumer Theory / Edward J. Green and Keith A. Moss -- II. History: The Role of Failure in Early Scientific Development. 5. Failure and Expertise in the Ancient Conception of an Art / James Allen. 6. Scholasticism and the Philosophy of Mind: The Failure of Aristotelian Psychology / Peter King -- III. Social Scientific Perspectives. 7. Converging Failures: Science Policy, Historiography and Social Theory of Early Molecular Biology / Pnina G. Abir-Am. 8. The Determinants of a Scientist's Choice of Research Projects / Arthur M. Diamond, Jr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Research -- Methodology.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Horowitz, Tamara.
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Janis, Allen I. (Allen Ira), 1930-
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| LC no. |
93005110 |
| ISBN |
0847678067 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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