Research Catalog

Title

Prematurity in scientific discovery : on resistance and neglect / edited by Ernest B. Hook.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hook, Ernest B., 1936-

Description

xx, 378 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Stent, Gunther S. 1924-2008
• Stent, Gunther S. 1924-2008
• Discoveries in science > Congresses
• Science > Philosophy
• Science
• Philosophy
• Science
• Philosophy
• sciences (philosophy)
• philosophy
• science (modern discipline)
• Discoveries in science
• Science > Philosophy
• Abwehr
• Vernachlässigung
• Naturwissenschaften
• Philosophie
• Erfindung
• Entdeckung
• Natuurwetenschappen
• Ontdekkingen
• Berkeley <Calif., 1997>

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. A Background to Prematurity and Resistance to "Discovery" / Ernest B. Hook -- 2. Prematurity in Scientific Discovery / Gunther S. Stent -- 3. Prematurity, Nuclear Fission, and the Transuranium Actinide Elements / Glenn T. Seaborg -- 4. Resistance to Change and New Ideas in Physics: A Personal Perspective / Charles H. Townes -- 5. The Timeliness of the Discoveries of the Three Modes of Gene Transfer in Bacteria / Norton D. Zinder -- 6. Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science / Oliver Sacks -- 7. Prematurity and Delay in the Prevention of Scurvy / Kenneth J. Carpenter -- 8. A Triptych to Serendip: Prematurity and Resistance to Discovery in the Earth Sciences / William Glen -- 9. Theories of an Expanding Universe: Implications of Their Reception for the Concept of Scientific Prematurity / Norriss S. Hetherington -- 10. Interdisciplinary Dissonance and Prematurity: Ida Noddack's Suggestion of Nuclear Fission / Ernest B. Hook -- 11. Michael Polanyi's Theory of Surface Adsorption: How Premature? / Mary Jo Nye -- 12. Prematurity and the Dynamics of Scientific Change / Frederic L. Holmes -- 13. Barbara McClintock's Controlling Elements: Premature Discovery or Stillborn Theory? / Nathaniel C. Comfort -- 14. The Work of Joseph Adams and Archibald Garrod: Possible Examples of Prematurity in Human Genetics / Arno G. Motulsky -- 15. The Prematurity of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection / Michale Ruse -- 16. Prematurity, Evolutionary Biology, and the Historical Sciences / Michael T. Ghiselin -- 17. The Prematurity of "Prematurity" in Political Science / George Von der Muhll -- 18. The Impact and Fate of Gunther Stent's Prematurity Thesis / Lawrence H. Stern -- 19. Premature Discovery Is Failure of Intersection among Social Worlds / Elihu M. Gerson -- 20. Fleck, Kuhn, and Stent: Loose Reflections on the Notion of Prematurity / Ilana Lowy -- 21. The Concept of Prematurity and the Philosophy of Science / Martin Jones -- 22. Prematurity and Promise: Why Was Stent's Notion of Prematurity Itself So Premature? / David L. Hull -- 23. Reflections on Hull's Remarks / Gonzalo Munevar -- 24. Comments / Gunther S. Stent -- 25. Extensions and Complexities: In Defense of Prematurity in Scientific Discovery / Ernest B. Hook.

ISBN

• 0520231066
• 9780520231061
• 0520231074
• 9780520231078

LCCN

2001004245

OCLC

• ocm47364052
• 47364052
• SCSB-1265307

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library