Prematurity in scientific discovery : on resistance and neglect /
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| Author / Creator: | Hook, Ernest B., 1936- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. |
| Description: | xx, 378 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4748248 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Part 1. Introduction
- 1. A Background to Prematurity and Resistance to "Discovery"
- 2. Prematurity in Scientific Discovery
- Part 2. Observer and Participant Accounts
- 3. Prematurity, Nuclear Fission, and the Transuranium Actinide Elements
- 4. Resistance to Change and New Ideas in Physics: A Personal Perspective
- 5. The Timeliness of the Discoveries of the Three Modes of Gene Transfer in Bacteria
- 6. Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science
- Part 3. Historical Perspectives
- Section A. Relatively Unproblematic Exemplars
- 7. Prematurity and Delay in the Prevention of Scurvy
- 8. A Triptych to Serendip: Prematurity and Resistance to Discovery in the Earth Sciences
- 9. Theories of an Expanding Universe: Implications of Their Reception for the Concept of Scientific Prematurity
- 10. Interdisciplinary Dissonance and Nuclear Fission: Ida Noddack and the Premature Suggestion of Nuclear Splitting
- Section B. Disputable Cases
- 11. Michael Polanyi's Theory of Surface Adsorption: How Premature?
- 12. Prematurity and the Dynamics of Scientific Change
- 13. Barbara McClintock's Controlling Elements: Premature Discovery or Stillborn Theory?
- 14. The Work of Joseph Adams and Archibald Garrod: Possible Examples of Prematurity in Human Genetics
- Part 4. Natural Selection and Evolution from the Perspective of Prematurity
- 15. The Prematurity of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection
- 16. Prematurity, Evolutionary Biology, and the Historical Sciences
- Part 5. Perspectives from the Vantage Point of the Social Sciences
- 17. Prematurity in Political "Science": Three Paradigms
- 18. The Impact and Fate of Gunther Stent's Prematurity Thesis
- 19. Premature Discovery Is Failure of Intersection among Social Worlds
- Part 6. Philosophical Perspectives
- 20. Fleck, Kuhn, and Stent: Loose Reflections on the Notion of Prematurity
- 21. The Concept of Prematurity and the Philosophy of Science
- Part 7. Closing Considerations
- 22. Prematurity and Promise: Why Was Stent's Notion of Prematurity Itself So Premature?
- 23. Reflections on Hull's Remarks
- 24. Comments
- 25. Extensions and Complexities: In Defense of Prematurity in Scientific Discovery
- Index
- Contributors
