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Transforming Nature

Ethics, Invention and Discovery

  • Hardback
  • 389 pages
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.4 cm

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For engineering students and curious thinkers

Shows how to turn new discoveries into social good

Helps you apply moral imagination to your inventions

Discover the fascinating intersection of cognitive psychology, creative invention, and responsible ethics.

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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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Sacred And The ProfaneTransforming Nature

  • Title

    Transforming Nature

  • Author

    Michael E. Gorman

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Kluwer Academic Publishers

  • Published

    February 1998

  • Edition

    1998 ed.

  • Weight

    754g

  • Page Count

    389

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780792381204

  • ISBN-10

    0792381203

  • Eden Code

    4582800