A01=Allen I. Janis
Author_Allen I. Janis
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- ISBN 9780847678068
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Dec 1993
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The enthusiasm and uncertainty with which a newly proposed scientific theory is received immediately encourages some scientists to disprove the theory and others to expand upon it. These tangent efforts are a very valuable result of scientific research, whether the original ideas are correct or not. Scientific Failure focuses on the successes that have been made out of failed theories.
Tamara Horowitz is professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and the co-editor of Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 1991). Allen I. Janis is professor of physics at the University of Pittsburgh.
