Ignorance: How It Drives Science
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Published by Oxford University Press, 2012
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- Title
- Ignorance: How It Drives Science
- Author
- Firestein, Stuart
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2012
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- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0199828075
- ISBN 13
- 9780199828074
Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.
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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. Also, he was recently named an AAAS Fellow.
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