Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
ISBN 13: 9780262544665
Pages: 392
Dimensons: 153 x 229 x 28 | 620 (gram)
---------------------------------------- A cognitive ethnography of how bioengineering scientists create innovative modeling methods.In this first full-scale, long-term cognitive ethnography by a philosopher of science, Nancy J, Dù sao thì mọi việc cũng qua rồi.. Nersessian offers an account of how scientists at the interdisciplinary frontiers of bioengineering create novel problem-solving methods, Dù sao thì mọi việc cũng qua rồi.. Bioengineering scientists model complex dynamical biological systems using concepts, methods, materials, and other resources drawn primarily from engineering, Dù sao thì mọi việc cũng qua rồi.. They aim to understand these systems sufficiently to control or intervene in them, Dù sao thì mọi việc cũng qua rồi.. What Nersessian examines here is how cutting-edge bioengineering scientists integrate the cognitive, social, material, and cultural dimensions of practice, Dù sao thì mọi việc cũng qua rồi.. Her findings and conclusions have broad implications for researchers in philosophy, science stus, cognitive science, and interdisciplinary stus, as well as scientists, educators, policy makers, and funding agencies.
In studying the epistemic practices of scientists, Nersessian pushes the boundaries of the philosophy of science and cognitive science into areas not ventured before, Dù sao thì mọi việc cũng qua rồi.. She recounts a decades-long, wide-ranging, and richly detailed investigation of the innovative interdisciplinary modeling practices of bioengineering researchers in four university laboratories, Dù sao thì mọi việc cũng qua rồi.. She argues and demonstrates that the methods of cognitive ethnography and qualitative data analysis, placed in the framework of distributed cognition, provide the tools for a philosophical analysis of how scientific discoveries arise from complex systems in which the cognitive, social, material, and cultural dimensions of problem-solving are integrated into the epistemic practices of scientists, Dù sao thì mọi việc cũng qua rồi.. Specifically, she looks at how interdisciplinary environments shape problem-solving, Dù sao thì mọi việc cũng qua rồi.. Although Nersessian’s case material is drawn from the bioengineering sciences, her analytic framework and methodological approach are directly applicable to scientific research in a broader, more general sense, as well.