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58 produkter
Objectivity
Av Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison
Häftad, 2010
400 kr
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Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity , Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences — and show how the concept differs from alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty …
Rules
A Short History of What We Live By
Häftad, 2023
178 kr
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A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe …
Against Nature
Häftad, 2019
201 kr
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A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.
The Empire of Chance
How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life
Av Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
455 kr
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The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays …
Histories of Scientific Observation
Av Elizabeth Lunbeck, Lorraine Daston
E-bok, 2011
732 kr
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Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate, the notebook, the glassed-in beehive, and …
Biographies of Scientific Objects
Häftad, 2000
366 kr
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Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry? Why do some of these objects remain provocative, while others fade from centre stage? And why do objects sometimes return as the focus of research long after they were once abandoned? Addressing such questions, this book is …
Histories of Scientific Observation
Av Lorraine Daston, Elizabeth Lunbeck
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate, the notebook, the glassed-in beehive, and …
Measurement in Psychology
A Critical History of a Methodological Concept
Av Joel Michell, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
410 kr
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This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so malleable when it collided with the subject matter of psychology. It locates philosophical and social influences (such as scientism, practicalism and Pythagoreanism) reshaping the concept and, at the core of this …
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science
Av Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston
Häftad, 2016
667 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.1500-1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history and mathematics. Articles by leading specialists …
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind – The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
Av Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
239 kr
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In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human …
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
Av Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
854 kr
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In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences - …
Biographies of Scientific Objects
Inbunden, 2000
1076 kr
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Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry? Why do some of these objects remain provocative, while others fade from centre stage? And why do objects sometimes return as the focus of research long after they were once abandoned? Addressing such questions, this book is …
Moral Authority of Nature
Av Lorraine Daston, Fernando Vidal
Häftad, 2003
400 kr
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For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify.The Moral Authority of Nature …
Moral Authority of Nature
Av Fernando Vidal, Lorraine Daston
E-bok, 2010
853 kr
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For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. The Moral Authority of Nature …
Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty
Reflections on a Science Classic
Av Lorraine Daston, Robert J. Richards
E-bok, 2016
491 kr
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Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the “paradigm shift,” social and psychological considerations …
Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' at Fifty
Reflections on a Science Classic
Av Robert J. Richards, Lorraine Daston
Häftad, 2016
256 kr
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Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the “paradigm shift,” social and psychological considerations …
Science in the Archives
Pasts, Presents, Futures
Häftad, 2017
400 kr
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Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; case histories published in medical …
Thinking with Animals
New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Av Lorraine Daston, Gregg Mitman
Inbunden, 2005
1204 kr
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Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as …
Thinking with Animals
New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Av Lorraine Daston, Gregg Mitman
Häftad, 2006
298 kr
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Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as …
Thinking with Animals
New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism
Av Lorraine Daston, Gregg Mitman
E-bok, 2005
450 kr
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Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as …
Against Nature
E-bok, 2019
239 kr
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A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment …
Probabilistic Revolution
Ideas in History
Av Lorenz Krüger, Lorraine Daston m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
881 kr
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Elizabethan Rhetoric
Theory and Practice
Av Peter Mack, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
557 kr
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Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in rhetoric and argument on a range of Elizabethan prose texts, including political orations, histories, romances, conduct manuals, privy council debates and personal letters. Elizabethan Rhetoric reconstructs the knowledge, skills and approaches …
The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism
Av Robert Alun Jones, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
846 kr
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Drawing on the kind of historicist perspective encouraged by Quentin Skinner and Richard Rorty, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism. Durkheim argued that social facts should be studied as real, concrete things but Professor Jones argues that his social realism was less a …
Pluralism and the Personality of the State
Av David Runciman, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
455 kr
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Set against the broad context of philosophical arguments about group and state personality, Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells, for the first time, the history of political pluralism. The pluralists believed that the state was simply one group among many, and could not therefore be …
The Social and Political Thought of Bertrand Russell
The Development of an Aristocratic Liberalism
Av Philip Ironside, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
716 kr
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This pioneering study of Bertrand Russell's social and political thought deals with the years 1896 to 1938, and is the first book to embark on a thorough investigation of the intellectual and cultural context out of which Russell's ideas emerged. Maintaining a sympathetic but critical stance …
Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Queen and Commonwealth 1558-1585
Av A. N. McLaren, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
732 kr
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In this major contribution to the Ideas in Context series Anne McLaren explores the consequences for English political culture when, with the accession of Elizabeth I, imperial 'kingship' came to be invested in the person of a female ruler. She looks at how Elizabeth managed to be queen, in the …
The Duel in Early Modern England
Civility, Politeness and Honour
Av Markku Peltonen, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
667 kr
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Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, …
Rival Enlightenments
Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany
Av Ian Hunter, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
477 kr
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Rival Enlightenments, first published in 2001, is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter approaches philosophical doctrines as ways of fashioning personae for envisaged historical circumstances, here of confessional conflict and political desacralization. …
Early Modern Liberalism
Av Annabel Patterson, Quentin Skinner m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Early Modern Liberalism rediscovers an important phase in the development of liberal thought. Despite the fact that 'liberalism' as a term was not applied to political thought or political parties in England until late in the eighteenth century, Annabel Patterson argues that its central ideas were …
