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Human Posture
The Nature of Inquiry
Häftad, 1989
463 kr
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Schumacher has written a provocative work in the philosophy of science. In presenting posture as the most important aspect of life, Schumacher examines how the terms of posture encompass all the major disciplines and provide a means for resolving human dilemmas through a humanistically oriented …
Scientific Knowledge in Controversy
The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate
Av Brian Martin
Inbunden, 1991
1561 kr
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Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate is a study of today's most heated and long-lived health controversy as well as a study of the role of power in science. It uses the tools of sociology of knowledge and political economy to analyze battles over …
Women in Engineering
Gender, Power, and Workplace Culture
Av Judith S. McIlwee, J. Gregg Robinson
Häftad, 1992
463 kr
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Who are the women who became engineers in the 1970s and 1980s?How have they fared in the most male-dominated profession in America? This is the first book to answer these questions. It explores the backgrounds, family lives, work experiences, and attitudes of engineers in order to explain the …
Math Worlds
Philosophical and Social Studies of Mathematics and Mathematics Education
Av Sal Restivo, Jean Paul van Van Bendegem m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
463 kr
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An international group of distinguished scholars brings a variety of resources to bear on the major issues in the study and teaching of mathematics, and on the problem of understanding mathematics as a cultural and social phenomenon. All are guided by the notion that our understanding of …
Knowledge Without Expertise
On the Status of Scientists
Inbunden, 1993
1515 kr
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This book critically examines the reliance of society on experts, specifically attacking the notion of the privilege of scientific expertise and defining the politics of this intellectual discourse. The extensive case material illustrates the consequences of claims of expert knowledge. Sassower …
On the Shoulders of Merchants
Exchange and the Mathematical Conception of Nature in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 1994
565 kr
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This book shows how the universal quantification of science resulted from the routinization of commercial practices that were familiar in scientist's daily lives. Following the work of Franz Borkenau and Jacob Klein in the 1930s, the book describes the rise of the mechanistic world-view as a …
Ecologies of Knowledge
Work and Politics in Science and Technology
Häftad, 1995
504 kr
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This collection of articles provides a comprehensive overview of personal and public issues related to social change and how they shape scientific and technical knowledge.Ecologies of Knowledge provides a comprehensive overview of issues relating to work, politics, and the latest perspectives on …
Energy Possibilities
Rethinking Alternatives and the Choice-Making Process
Häftad, 1995
455 kr
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Examines the current and prospective energy sources and choices from the perspectives of science, technology, and social studies.Using the perspectives of science, technology, and society studies, this book grapples with questions stimulated by a concern that current energy policies and practices …
Science of Empire
Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India
Av Zaheer Baber
Häftad, 1996
477 kr
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Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.In Science, Civilization, and Empire in India, Zaheer Baber analyzes the social context of the origins and development of science and technology in India from …
Beyond the Science Wars
The Missing Discourse about Science and Society
Häftad, 2000
463 kr
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Contextualizes the "Science Wars" from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives.Beyond the Science Wars offers a broad contextualization of the "Science Wars"-an ongoing debate between scientists and social scientists over the nature and meaning …
Science, Technology, and Democracy
Häftad, 2000
455 kr
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Examines restrictions and potentialities for public access to science and technology decision making.Activists, scientists, and scholars in the social sciences and humanities explore in productive dialogue what it means to democratize science and technology. The contributors consider what role lay …
Mistaken Identity
The Mind-Brain Problem Reconsidered
Häftad, 2001
272 kr
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This "unauthorized biography" of cognitive neuroscience unveils hidden errors in current mind-body accounts and sheds new light on basic scientific issues.Neuroscientist Leslie Brothers argues that our understanding of the brain is determined by popular beliefs about the mind. She critiques …
Galileo's Pendulum
Science, Sexuality, and the Body-Instrument Link
Häftad, 2003
371 kr
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Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body.Drawing on the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and others who have written on the history of sexuality and the body, Galileo's Pendulum explores how the emergence of the scientific method in the …
Human Posture
The Nature of Inquiry
Inbunden, 1989
1087 kr
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Schumacher has written a provocative work in the philosophy of science. In presenting posture as the most important aspect of life, Schumacher examines how the terms of posture encompass all the major disciplines and provide a means for resolving human dilemmas through a humanistically oriented …
Peerless Science
Peer Review and U. S. Science Policy
Av Daryl E. Chubin, Edward J. Hackett
Inbunden, 1990
1111 kr
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This book examines the structure and operation of peer review as a family of quality control mechanisms and looks at the burdens placed on the various forms of peer review. Assuming that peer review is central to the functioning of U.S. science policy, Chubin and Hackett explore the symbolic and …
Peerless Science
Peer Review and U. S. Science Policy
Av Daryl E. Chubin, Edward J. Hackett
Häftad, 1990
393 kr
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This book examines the structure and operation of peer review as a family of quality control mechanisms and looks at the burdens placed on the various forms of peer review. Assuming that peer review is central to the functioning of U.S. science policy, Chubin and Hackett explore the symbolic and …
Professional Quest for Truth
A Social Theory of Science and Knowledge
Inbunden, 1992
1111 kr
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This book argues that the power of science as the most respected and authoritative world view is based on its superior material and organizational resources, not on its superior rationality. Fuchs approaches science as a social construct, and utilizing a theory of scientific organizations, he …
Value of Convenience
A Genealogy of Technical Culture
Inbunden, 1993
1087 kr
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In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern …
Value of Convenience
A Genealogy of Technical Culture
Häftad, 1992
393 kr
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In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical culture. While revealing modern attitudes toward technology, the human body, mortality, and necessity, Tierney focuses on the cultural value of convenience and on modern …
Math Worlds
Philosophical and Social Studies of Mathematics and Mathematics Education
Av Sal Restivo, Jean Paul van Van Bendegem m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1087 kr
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An international group of distinguished scholars brings a variety of resources to bear on the major issues in the study and teaching of mathematics, and on the problem of understanding mathematics as a cultural and social phenomenon. All are guided by the notion that our understanding of …
Controversial Science
From Content to Contention
Av Thomas Brante, Steve Fuller m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
422 kr
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This book represents emerging alternative perspectives to the "constructivist" orthodoxy that currently dominates the field of science and technology studies. Various contributions from distinguished Americans and Europeans in the field, provide arguments and evidence that it is not enough simply …
Knowledge Without Expertise
On the Status of Scientists
Häftad, 1993
394 kr
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This book critically examines the reliance of society on experts, specifically attacking the notion of the privilege of scientific expertise and defining the politics of this intellectual discourse. The extensive case material illustrates the consequences of claims of expert knowledge. Sassower …
Science, Paradox, and the Moebius Principle
The Evolution of a "Transcultural" Approach to Wholeness
Häftad, 1994
414 kr
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Science, Paradox, and the Moebius Principle confronts basic anomalies in the foundations of contemporary knowledge. Steven M. Rosen deals with paradoxes that call into question our conventional way of thinking about space, time, and the nature of human experience.Rosen's contribution is unique in …
In Measure, Number, and Weight
Studies in Mathematics and Culture
Av Jens Hoyrup
Häftad, 1994
437 kr
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Jens Hoyrup, recognized as the leading authority in social studies of pre-modern mathematics, here provides a social study of the changing mode of mathematical thought through history. His "anthropology" of mathematics is a unique approach to its history, in which he examines its pursuit and …
Science without Myth
On Constructions, Reality, and Social Knowledge
Häftad, 1995
394 kr
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This philosophical introduction to and discussion of social and political studies of science argues that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.By looking at science as a social and political activity, researchers have created novel accounts of scientific practice and rationality, accounts …
Science of Empire
Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India
Av Zaheer Baber
Inbunden, 1996
1144 kr
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Investigates the complex social processes involved in the introduction and institutionalization of Western science in colonial India.In Science, Civilization, and Empire in India, Zaheer Baber analyzes the social context of the origins and development of science and technology in India from …
In and About the World
Philosophical Studies of Science and Technology
Av Hans Radder
Häftad, 1996
401 kr
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Offers a new approach to a number of central issues concerning the theoretical interpretation and normative evaluation of contemporary science and technology.
Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics
Av Paul Ernest
Inbunden, 1997
1111 kr
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Extends the ideas of social constructivism to the philosophy of mathematics, developing a powerful critique of traditional absolutist conceptions of mathematics, and proposing a reconceptualization of the philosophy of mathematics.Proposing social constructivism as a novel philosophy of …
Human Sciences
Reappraising the Humanities Through History and Philosophy
Av Jens Hoyrup
Häftad, 2000
437 kr
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Offers historical and philosophical arguments for treating the humanities as sciences.Human Sciences assesses the importance and value of the humanities historically and philosophically, and makes the case for treating them as sciences. Through careful examination of the characteristics they share …
Beyond the Science Wars
The Missing Discourse about Science and Society
Inbunden, 2000
1111 kr
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Contextualizes the "Science Wars" from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives.Beyond the Science Wars offers a broad contextualization of the "Science Wars"-an ongoing debate between scientists and social scientists over the nature and meaning …
