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Transforming Nature - Ethics, Invention and Discovery (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Transforming Nature - Ethics, Invention and Discovery (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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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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