Scientific Failure

The contributors-philosophers, historians, and scientists-present famous scientific facts that began as mistaken theories, then they proceed to explore these and other discoveries that have resulted from failed ideas and how these failures relate to the development of science.

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Methodology: The Role of Failure in Modern Scientific Development
The Value of Scientific Failure	p. 13
The Frustrated State of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics	p. 19
The Classical Failure to Account for Electromagnetic Arrows of Time	p. 29
The Reorientation of Neoclassical Consumer Theory	p. 49
History: The Role of Failure in Early Scientific Development
Failure and Expertise in the Ancient Conception of an Art	p. 81
Scholasticism and the Philosophy of Mind: The Failure of Aristotelian Psychology	p. 109
Social Scientific Perspectives
Converging Failures: Science Policy, Historiography and Social Theory of Early Molecular Biology	p. 141
The Determinants of a Scientist's Choice of Research Projects	p. 167
Contributors	p. 211
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