Scientific and Technological Thinking [Hardcover]

Contents: Preface. M.E. Gorman, R.D. Tweney, D.C. Gooding, A.P. Kincannon, Editors' Introduction. N.J. Nersessian, Interpreting Scientific and Engineering Practices: Integrating the Cognitive, Social, and Cultural Dimensions. K.N. Dunbar, J.A. Fugelsang, Casual Thinking in Science: How Scientists and Students Interpret the Unexpected. D. Klahr, A Framework for Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology. S.B. Trickett, C.D. Schunn, J.G. Trafton, Puzzles and Peculiarities: How Scientists Attend to and Process Anomalies During Data Analysis. J. Shrager, On Being and Becoming a Molecular Biologist: Notes From the Diary of an Insane Cell Mechanic. R.D. Tweney, R.P. Mears, C. Spitzmüller, Replicating the Practices of Discovery: Michael Faraday and the Interaction of Gold and Light. P. Thagard, How to Be a Successful Scientist. D.C. Gooding, Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Visualization, Cognition, and Scientific Inference. M.F. Ippolito, Problem Representation in Virginia Woolf's Invention of a Novelistic Form. G. Bradshaw, What's So Hard About Rocket Science? Secrets the Rocket Boys Knew. T.P. Hughes, A Systems Ordered World. M.E. Gorman, Levels of Expertise and Trading Zones: Combining Cognitive and Social Approaches to Technology Studies. B. Allenby, Technology at the Global Scale: Interactive Cognitivism and Earth Systems Engineering and Management. M.E. Gorman, R.D. Tweney, D.C. Gooding, A.P. Kincannon, The Future of Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology.
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