Transforming Nature

Ethics, Invention and Discovery

By: Michael E. Gorman

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Hardcover | 28 February 1998

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This book treats discovery and invention as processes of knowledge transformation. This process of transformation also covers the way in which scientists persuade and inventors create markets. New discoveries and technologies are not simply the result of organizational agendas and market forces; they are created by human beings who transform both nature and society. One of the goals of this book is to take technological and scientific thinking out of the realm of mystery and give a wider audience the tools to begin to comprehend it. An additional goal is to show how ethics can be used to make certain inventions and discoveries transform the world in a beneficial way. New technologies must be environmentally sustainable and socially just.
Chapter 1 begins with analysis of several cases of discovery, and attempts to make generalizations from them. Chapter 2 combines psychology, sociology and philosophy of science in an effort to determine whether and how science can be studied. Chapter 3 is about invention and the story of the telephone is at the center, with other cases embellishing the discussion. Chapter 4 brings ethics, discovery and invention together in the case of the atomic bomb, then goes on to treat new ethical technologies like the development of a compostable furniture fabric and the introduction of photovoltaics into developing countries. Chapter 5 considers how to teach ethical discovery and invention, and includes a section on the management of discovery and invention.

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Discovery
Kepler
Writing as Discovery
Discovery as Invention: Michael Faraday
Discovery as Negotiation: The Great Devonian Controversy
The Double Helix
The Canals on Mars
Understanding and Teaching Discovery: What Have we Learned?
Understanding Discovery
The Emergence of a Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
The Scientific Method: Road to Truth or Superstitious Practice?
Cognitive Psychology of Science
Metaphors and Analogies in Scientific Thinking
Cognitive Psychology of Science in Perspective
Creating a New World
The Etheric Force and Cold Fusion: When Discovery and Invention Don't Mix
Reverse Salients and Simultaneous Inventions
A Cognitive Framework for Understanding the Invention Process
Competition over the Harmonic Multiple Telegraph
The Error that Led to the First Telephone
Gray's Caveat for a Speaking Telegraph
Bell's Ear Mental Model
Bell's Patent and Gray's Caveat Compared
Bell's Path to the First Transmission of Speech
Bell and Gray's Liquid Transmitters in Perspective
After the First Transmission of Speech
Cognition, Invention and Discovery: The Five Generalizations
What Invention Says to Cognitive Science
Ethics, Invention and Discovery
When Matter Becomes Energy
Virtue and Moral Reasoning
Moral Imagination
Towards a Sustainable Tomorrow
The Natural Step
Science, Superstition and Sustainability
Silicon Nightmare
Design of an Environmentally Intelligent Fabric
Current Solar Income
Generalizations about Ethics, Invention and Discovery
Teaching Ethics, Discovery and Invention
What Students and Practitioners Need to Learn
Using Abstract Simulations to Teach Scientific Thinking
Turning Active Learning Modules into Case-Studies
Turning Students into Inventors
Cases that Combine Invention and Ethics
Ethics Case Dilemmas
Using Active Learning Modules to Teach Environmental Invention
Implications for Educational Reform
Implications for Managing Innovation
Why Do we Not Act to Save the World?
Of Loons, and a Lake
Bibliography
Index
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