9780792381204-0792381203-Transforming Nature: Ethics, Invention and Discovery

Transforming Nature: Ethics, Invention and Discovery

ISBN-13: 9780792381204
ISBN-10: 0792381203
Edition: 1998
Author: Michael E. Gorman
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover 407 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780792381204
ISBN-10: 0792381203
Edition: 1998
Author: Michael E. Gorman
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardcover 407 pages

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Transforming Nature: Ethics, Invention and Discovery (ISBN-13: 9780792381204 and ISBN-10: 0792381203), written by authors Michael E. Gorman, was published by Springer in 1998. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Transforming Nature: Ethics, Invention and Discovery (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This book is but the draft of a draft, as Melville said of Moby Dick. There is no prose here to match Melville's, but the scope is worthy of the great white whale. No one could possibly write a comprehensive, authoritative book on ethics, invention and discovery. I have not tried to, though I hope my bibliography will be a useful starting point for other explorers, and the cases and ideas presented here will keep people arguing for years. Although this book is nothing like a textbook, it is written for my students. I was trained as a teacher of psychology in graduate school and ended-up, by one of those happy chances of the job market, teaching psychology to engineering students rather than psyche majors. My dissertation and early research were in the psychology of scientific hypothesis-testing (see Chapter 2). When I team-taught a course with W. Bernard Carlson, a historian of technology, I saw how cognitive psychology might be applied to the study of invention. Bernie and I received funding from the National Science Foundation for three years of research on the invention of the telephone; a portion of that work is described in Chapter 3.

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