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| Titolo: | Technological innovation as an evolutionary process / edited by John Ziman on behalf of the Epistemology group. |
| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2000. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XVII, 379 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of contributors. Preface. Pt. 1. Evolutionary thinking: 1. Evolutionary models for technological change / John Ziman 2. Biological evolution: processes and phenomena / Eva Jablonka and John Ziman 3. Lamarckian inheritance systems in biology: a source of metaphors and models in technological evolution / Eva Jablonka 4. Selectionism and complexity / John Ziman 5. Evolutionary phenomena in technological change / Joel Mokyr 6. Selection criteria and selection processes in cultural evolution theories / Richard Nelson. Pt. 2. Innovation as a cultural practice: 7. Technological evolution and involution, a preliminary comparison of Europe and Japan / Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison 8. Stasis in complex artefacts / Gerry Martin 9. Gothic tales of spandrels, hooks and monsters: complexity, multiplicity and association in the explanation of technological change / David Turnbull 10. Path dependence and varieties of learning in the evolution of technological practice / Paul A. David. Pt. 3. Invention as a process: 11. Invention and evolution: the case of Edison's sketches of the telephone / W. Bernard Carlson 12. The evolution od adaptive form / David Perkins 13. Real-world variation-selection in the evolution of technological form: historical examples / Walter G. Vincenti 14. Learning to be inventive: design, evaluation and selection in primary school technology / Joan Solomon 15. Tecnological evolution as self-fulfilling prophecy / Geoffrey Miller. Pt. 4. Institutionalized innovation: 16. Recursive practice and the evolution of technological knowledge / Edward Constant 17. The concept of design space / Rikard Stankiewicz 18. Artefact-activity: the coevolution of artefacts, knowledge and organization in technological innovation / James Fleck 19. The organization of innovative enterprises / Gerard Fairtlough. Pt. 5. Technological change in a wider perspective: 20. The evolution of war and technology / Edward Constant 21. Learning about technology in society: developing liberating literacy / Janet Davies Burns 22. An end-word / by all contributors. Notes. Bibliography. Index |
| ISBN: | 0521542170 |
| Altri autori: | Ziman, John M., 1925-
Burns, Janet Davies. Mokyr, Joel. Nelson, Richard R. MacFarlane, Alan. Harrison, Sarah. Martin, Gerry. Turnbull, David, 1943- David, Paul A. Carlson, W. Bernard, 1955- Perkins, David N. Vincenti, Walter G., 1917- Solomon, Joan. Miller, Geoffrey. Constant, Edward W. Stankiewicz, Rikard. Fleck, James. Fairtlough, Gerard. Jablonka, Eva. |
| Discipline: | Tecnologia--Filosofia e teorie. |
| Keyword: | Keywords--Darwinismo. |
| Collocazione: | LS 13462 |
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