Stuart Firestein (Professor and Department of Biological Sci Chair

Gebundenes Buch

Ignorance

How It Drives Science

Beschreibung

Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart 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.

Autor

Stuart Firestein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where his highly popular course on ignorance invites working scientists to come talk to students each week about what they don't know. Dedicated to promoting science to a public audience, he serves as an advisor for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's program for the Public Understanding of Science and was awarded the 2011 Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for excellence in scholarship and teaching.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 189mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9780199828074
• ISBN-10: 0199828075
• Artikelnr.: 34156298