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9 produkter
The Evolution of Cultural Entities
Av WHEELER, Michael Wheeler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1040 kr
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Ever since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms and theories seem to 'evolve' through sequences of variation, selection and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. These essays consider whether this comparison is 'just a metaphor', or …
Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
Av John Ziman
Häftad, 2003
1416 kr
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Technological artefacts and biological organisms 'evolve' by very similar processes of blind variation and selective retention. This analogy is explored systematically, for the first time, by a team of international experts from evolutionary biology, history and sociology of science and technology, …
Real Science
What it Is and What it Means
Av John Ziman
Inbunden, 2000
1807 kr
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Scientists and 'anti-scientists' alike need a more realistic image of science. The traditional mode of research, academic science, is not just a 'method': it is a distinctive culture, whose members win esteem and employment by making public their findings. Fierce competition for credibility is …
Real Science
What it Is and What it Means
Av John Ziman
Häftad, 2002
487 kr
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Scientists and 'anti-scientists' alike need a more realistic image of science. The traditional mode of research, academic science, is not just a 'method': it is a distinctive culture, whose members win esteem and employment by making public their findings. Fierce competition for credibility is …
Research System in Transition
Av Susan E. Cozzens, Peter Healey m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
2183 kr
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On a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which …
Of One Mind
The Collectivization of Science
Av John Ziman
Inbunden, 1997
388 kr
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This superb collection by the eminent physicist and critic John Ziman, opens with an album of portraits of scientists--Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Lev Landau, Mark Azbel, Andrei Sakharov. Ziman takes readers into the world of the contemporary scientist, showing how discoveries are made and how …
Research System in Transition
Av John Ziman, Arie Rip m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
2862 kr
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On a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which …
Research System in Transition
Av Susan E. Cozzens, Peter Healey m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
2183 kr
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On a mountainside in sunny Tuscany, in October 1989, 96 people from 23 countries on five continents gathered to learn and teach about the problems of managing contemporary science. The diversity of economic and political systems represented in the group was matched by our occupations, which …
Science in Civil Society
Av John Ziman
Häftad, 2007
255 kr
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These days, science is everywhere. It pervades our whole society. Sometimes it is just a clutter of commonplace frivolities, like new fashion fabrics. Sometimes it miraculously preserves our life, like penicillin. Sometimes, like climate change, it looms over us as a portent of doom: sometimes it …
