附註:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. Editors' introduction / Michael E. Gorman, Ryan D. Tweney, David C. Gooding, and Alexandra P. Kincannon -- 2. Interpreting scientific and engineering practices : integrating the cognitive, social, and cultural dimensions / Nancy J. Nersessian -- 3. Causal thinking in science : how scientists and students interpret the unexpected / Kevin N. Dunbar and Jonathan A. Fugelsang -- 4. A framework for cognitive studies of science and technology / David Klahr -- 5. Puzzles and peculiarities : how scientists attend to and process anomalies during data analysis / Susan Bell Trickett, Christian D. Schunn, and J. Gregory Trafton -- 6. On being and becoming a molecular biologist : notes from the diary of an insane cell mechanic / Jeff Shrager -- 7. Replicating the practices of discovery : Michael Faraday and the interaction of gold and light / Ryan D. Tweney, Ryan P. Mears, and Christiane Spitzmuller -- 8. How to be a successful scientist / Paul Thagard -- 9. Seeing the forest for the trees : visualization, cognition, and scientific inference / David C. Gooding -- 10. Problem representation in Virginia Woolf's invention of a novelistic form / Maria F. Ippolito -- 11. What's so hard about rocket science? : secrets the rocket boys knew / Gary Bradshaw -- 12. A systems-ordered world / Thomas P. Hughes -- 13. Levels of expertise and trading zones : combining cognitive and social approaches to technology studies / Michael E. Gorman -- 14. Technology at the global scale: integrative cognitivism and earth systems engineering and management / Brad Allenby -- 15. The future of cognitive studies of science and technology / Michael E. Gorman, Ryan D. Tweney, David C. Gooding, and Alexandra P. Kincannon.
摘要:Knowledge about the cognitive processes that lead to discovery and invention can enhance the probability of making valuable new discoveries and inventions. A special focus for this volume is to explore what fine-grained case studies can tell us about cognitive processes.