Ignorance: How It Drives Science
Oxford University Press (2012)
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Stuart Firestein
Columbia University
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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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| Keywords | Science Philosophy Ignorance (Theory of knowledge Discoveries in science SCIENCE / General |
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| Call number | Q175.32.K45.F57 2012 |
| ISBN(s) | 9780199828074 0199828075 |
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