{"product_id":"9780792381204","title":"Transforming Nature: Ethics, Invention and Discovery","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTransforming Nature: Ethics, Invention and Discovery\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eGorman, Michael E.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1998-02-28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792381204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4615-5657-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 389\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46312330199180,"sku":"9780792381204","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792381204.jpg?v=1771524360","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780792381204","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}