Scientific and Technological Thinking

Scientific.and.Technological.Thinking......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1 Editors' Introduction......Page 12
2 Interpreting Scientific and Engineering Practices: Integrating the Cognitive, Social, and Cultural Dimensions......Page 28
3 Causal Thinkinging Science: How Scientists and Students Interpret the Unexpected......Page 68
4 A Framework for Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology......Page 92
5 Puzzles and Peculiarities: How Scientists Attend to and Process Anomalies During Data Analysis......Page 108
6 On Being and Becoming a Molecular Biologist: Notes From the Diary of an Insane Cell Mechanic......Page 130
7 Replicating the Practices of Discovery: Michael Faraday and the Interaction of Gold and Light......Page 148
8 How to Be a Successful Scientist......Page 170
9 Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Visualization, Cognition, and Scientific Inference......Page 184
1O Problem Representation in Virginia Woolf's Invention of a Novelistic Form......Page 230
11 What's So Hard About Rocket Science? Secrets the Rocket Boys Knew......Page 270
12 A Systems-Ordered World......Page 288
13 Levels of Expertise and Trading Zones: Combining Cognitive and Social Approaches to Technology Studies......Page 298
14 Technology at the Global Scale: Integrative Cognitivism and Earth Systems Engineering and Management......Page 314
15 The Future of Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology......Page 356
Author Index......Page 363
Subject Index......Page 371