Scientific and technological thinking / edited by Michael E. Gorman [and others].

Other author Gorman, Michael E., 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoMahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2005.
Descriptionix, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents 1. Editors' introduction / Michael E. Gorman, Ryan D. Tweney, David C. Gooding, and Alexandra P. Kincannon -- 2. Interpreting scientific and engineering practices: integrating the cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions / Nancy J. Nersessian -- 3. Causal thinking in science: how scientists and students interpret the unexpected / Kevin N. Dunbar and Jonathan A. Fugelsang -- 4. A framework for cognitive studies of science and technology / David Klahr -- 5. Puzzles and peculiarities: how scientists attend to and process anomalies during data analysis / Susan Bell Trickett, Christian D. Schunn, and J. Gregory Trafton -- 6. On being and becoming a molecular biologist: notes from the diary of an insane cell mechanic / Jeff Shrager -- 7. Replicating the practices of discovery: Michael Faraday and the interaction of gold and light / Ryan D. Tweney, Ryan P. Mears, and Christiane Spitzmüller -- 8. How to be a successful scientist / Paul Thagard -- 9. Seeing the forest for the trees: visualization, cognition, and scientific inference / David C. Gooding -- 10. Problem representation in Virginia Woolf's invention of a novelistic form / Maria F. Ippolito -- 11. What's so hard about rocket science? Secrets the rocket boys knew / Gary Bradshaw -- 12. A systems-ordered world / Thomas P. Hughes -- 13. Levels of expertise and trading zones: combining cognitive and social approaches to technology studies / Michael E. Gorman -- 14. Technology at the global scale: integrative cognitivism and earth systems engineering and management / Brad Allenby -- 15. The future of cognitive studies of science and technology / Michael E. Gorman, Ryan D. Tweney, David C. Gooding, and Alexandra P. Kincannon.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2003063115
ISBN0805845291 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks T49.5 .S243 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold