Serendipity Science: An Emerging Field and Its Methods

Copeland, Samantha, Ross, Wendy, Sand, Martin

Serendipity Science: An Emerging Field and Its Methods
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-15
  • 售價: $4,630
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 234
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031335317
  • ISBN-13: 9783031335310

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商品描述

This volume brings together for the first time the diverse threads within the growing field of serendipity research, to reflect both on the origins of this emerging field within different disciplines as well as its increasing influence as its own field with foundational texts and emerging practices. The phenomenon of serendipity has been described in many ways since Horace Walpole initially coined the term in 1754 to categorize those discoveries that happen by "both accidents and sagacity". This book offers a sampling of perspectives from experts in serendipity research from organizational studies, management theory, information science and library studies, psychology, literature, computer science, social science, ethics, and the history and philosophy of science. Considerations about the importance and role of serendipity are being raised now across science (both empirical and theoretical) as well as practice (from art and innovation to leadership and governance), with ever more eyes looking closer at its significance in human history and the likelihood it will play a key, while unpredictable, role in forming our future. Serendipity Science represents an emerging, and also important and potentially necessary field of study, if we are to deal well as a society with our complex times and uncertain future.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本卷首次匯集了日益增長的意外發現研究領域中的多元線索，反映了這一新興領域在不同學科中的起源，以及作為一個獨立領域的日益影響力，伴隨著基礎文本和新興實踐。自從霍勒斯·沃波爾在1754年首次創造“serendipity”這個術語以來，這一現象已被以多種方式描述，用以分類那些由“意外和智慧”所產生的發現。本書提供了來自組織研究、管理理論、資訊科學與圖書館學、心理學、文學、計算機科學、社會科學、倫理學以及科學史和科學哲學等領域的專家對意外發現研究的觀點樣本。關於意外發現的重要性和角色的考量，現在在科學（包括實證和理論）以及實踐（從藝術和創新到領導和治理）中被提出，越來越多的目光正聚焦於其在人類歷史中的意義，以及它在塑造我們未來時可能扮演的關鍵而不可預測的角色。《Serendipity Science》代表了一個新興且重要、潛在必要的研究領域，若我們希望作為一個社會妥善應對我們複雜的時代和不確定的未來。

作者簡介

Samantha Copeland is an Assistant Professor in Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at Delft University of Technology. Co-founder and continuing co-chair of the Serendipity Society, Copeland has also recently edited The Art of Serendipity (2022, Palgrave-McMillan) with Ross, and has published in philosophy journals such as Synthese, Perspectives on Philosophy of Science, and in collections on the rationality and epistemology of discoveries made by chance, as well as the impact of contingent environments on the success of potential serendipity. Recent work with the Templeton Foundation has focussed on the relationships between ethics, serendipity and possibility.

Martin Sand is an Assistant Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology at TU Delft. In 2020, he was a member of the NIAS-Lorentz theme group on "Accountable and Explainable Medical AI" at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Before, he undertook a two-year project on the topic"Moral Luck in Science and Innovation" as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie-Fellow. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice and an editorial board member of the journal Philosophy of Management.

Wendy Ross studies the role of material serendipity in higher cognitive processes such as insight problem solving and creativity. She draws on a range of methods from eye-tracking and experimental psychology to focused cognitive ethnography. She has recently co-edited the collections on serendipity: The Art of Serendipity (Palgrave). She is Co-Chair of the Serendipity Society and Vice President of the Possibility Studies Network. In 2021 she was awarded the Frank X Barron prize by Division 10 of the APA.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

薩曼莎·科普蘭（Samantha Copeland）是代爾夫特科技大學（Delft University of Technology）倫理學與科技哲學的助理教授。作為意外發現學會（Serendipity Society）的共同創辦人及持續共同主席，科普蘭最近與羅斯（Ross）共同編輯了《意外發現的藝術》（The Art of Serendipity，2022年，Palgrave-McMillan），並在《Synthese》、《科學哲學觀點》（Perspectives on Philosophy of Science）等哲學期刊上發表過文章，內容涉及偶然發現的理性與認識論，以及偶然環境對潛在意外發現成功的影響。她最近與坦普頓基金會（Templeton Foundation）的合作專注於倫理、意外發現與可能性之間的關係。

馬丁·桑德（Martin Sand）是代爾夫特科技大學的倫理學與科技哲學助理教授。2020年，他是荷蘭高級研究所（Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study）「可負責任與可解釋的醫療人工智慧」（Accountable and Explainable Medical AI）NIAS-Lorentz主題小組的成員。在此之前，他作為瑪麗·斯克沃多夫斯卡-居里研究員（Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow）進行了一個為期兩年的項目，主題為「科學與創新中的道德運氣」（Moral Luck in Science and Innovation）。他是《技術評估理論與實踐期刊》（Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice）的科學諮詢委員會成員，以及《管理哲學期刊》（Philosophy of Management）的編輯委員會成員。

溫迪·羅斯（Wendy Ross）研究物質性意外發現在高級認知過程中的角色，例如洞察問題解決和創造力。她運用多種方法，包括眼動追蹤、實驗心理學和專注的認知民族誌。她最近共同編輯了有關意外發現的文集：《意外發現的藝術》（The Art of Serendipity，Palgrave）。她是意外發現學會的共同主席及可能性研究網絡的副主席。2021年，她獲得了美國心理學會（APA）第10部門頒發的弗蘭克·X·巴倫獎（Frank X Barron prize）。

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