Failure - Why Science Is So Successful

Zusatztext The book is very engaging and witty at times Informationen zum 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. He was also recently named an AAAS Fellow. Klappentext Failure is a book that seeks to make science more appealing by exposing its faults. In this sequel to Ignorance, Stuart Firestein shows us that scientific enterprise is riddled with failures, and that this is not only necessary but good. Zusammenfassung Failure is a book that seeks to make science more appealing by exposing its faults. In this sequel to Ignorance, Stuart Firestein shows us that scientific enterprise is riddled with failures, and that this is not only necessary but good. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents 1. Introduction 2. Failing to Define Failure 3. Fail Better: Advice from Samuel Beckett 4. The Scientific Basis of Failure 5. The Unreasonable Success of Failure 6. The Integrity of Failure 7. Teaching Failure 8. The Arc of Failure 9. The Scientific Method of Failure 10. Failure in the Clinic 11. How to Love Your Data When It's Wrong: Negative Results 12. Philosopher of Failure 13. Funding Failure 14. A Plurality of Failures 15. CODA Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Firestein, Stuart (Professor of Neuroscience and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences Firestein, Firestein Stuart
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2015
• EAN: 9780199390106
• ISBN: 978-0-19-939010-6
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 185 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); popular science, SCIENCE / History, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge