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Transforming Nature

Ethics, Invention and Discovery

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  • © 1998

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  1. Michael E. Gorman

    1. University of Virginia, USA

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Discovery

    • Michael E. Gorman
    Pages 1-50

  3. Understanding Discovery

    • Michael E. Gorman
    Pages 51-111

  4. Creating a New World

    • Michael E. Gorman
    Pages 112-177

  5. Ethics, Invention and Discovery

    • Michael E. Gorman
    Pages 178-275

  6. Teaching Ethics, Discovery and Invention

    • Michael E. Gorman
    Pages 276-356

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 357-389
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Virginia, USA

    Michael E. Gorman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transforming Nature

  • Book Subtitle: Ethics, Invention and Discovery

  • Authors: Michael E. Gorman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5657-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8120-4Published: 28 February 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7589-0Published: 04 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5657-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 389

  • Topics: Innovation/Technology Management, Industrial Organization, Entrepreneurship

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