Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science – serie
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Darwin and the Naked Lady
Discursive Essays on Biology and Art
Av Alex Comfort
Häftad, 2013
425 kr
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Originally published in 1961. The essays in this volume focus on the awareness of science and art, evolution and Freudian psychology. Besides the chapter on Darwin and Freud, the author discusses criticism, the fantasy element in drama and popular literature, the history of the novel, the …
Astronomical Revolution
Copernicus - Kepler - Borelli
Inbunden, 2008
7579 kr
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Originally published in English in 1973. This volume traces the development of the revolution which so drastically altered man’s view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "astronomical revolution" was accomplished in three stages, each linked with the work of one man. …
Social Impact of Modern Biology
Inbunden, 2008
997 kr
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Originally published in 1971. Discoveries in modern biology can radically change human life as we know it. As our understanding of living processes, such as inheritance, grows, so do the possibilities of applying these results for good and evil, such as the treatment of disease, the control of …
Explanation and Understanding
Inbunden, 2008
2133 kr
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This volume distinguishes between two main traditions in the philosophy of science - the aristotelian, with its stress on explanation in terms of purpose and intentionality, and the galilean, which takes causal explanation as primary. It then traces the complex history of these competing traditions …
Evolution and Human Behaviour
An Introduction to Darwinian Anthropology
Av Alex Alland
Inbunden, 2008
2133 kr
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Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within the framework of Darwinian evolution. Rejecting analogue models of biological evolution common in the social …
Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory
Av Barry Barnes
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1974. Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory centres on the problem of explaining the manifest variety and contrast in the beliefs about nature held in different groups and societies. It maintains that the sociologist should treat all beliefs symmetrically and must …
Continuous Creation
A Biological Concept of the Nature of Matter
Inbunden, 2008
997 kr
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Originally published in 1950, this book challenged the basis of our beliefs about the relation of life to matter. Already aware that chalk, limestone and coal seams are the residues of ancient life, the author suggests that this knowledge may also be applied to the rest of matter. In that case, he …
Glimpsing Reality
Ideas in Physics and the Link to Biology
Av Paul & F David Buckley & Peat
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1979. This reprints the revised and expanded edition of 1996. In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought explore issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at …
Darwin and the Naked Lady
Discursive Essays on Biology and Art
Av Alex Comfort
Inbunden, 2008
1147 kr
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Originally published in 1961. The essays in this volume focus on the awareness of science and art, evolution and Freudian psychology. Besides the chapter on Darwin and Freud, the author discusses criticism, the fantasy element in drama and popular literature, the history of the novel, the …
Science Industry and Society
Studies in the Sociology of Science
Av Stephen and Steven Cotgrove & Box
Inbunden, 2008
997 kr
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Originally published in 1970. Two major changes have characterised science in the twentieth century. Firstly, there has been its rapid growth. Secondly, and central to the theme his book – science is no longer mainly an academic activity carried on in universities. Industry will soon be the largest …
British Scientists of the Twentieth Century
Av J G Crowther
Inbunden, 2008
1058 kr
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Originally published in 1952. Following on from British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century, this volume covers six eminent British scientists whose work and personality have not receded into the same depth of perspective as their predecessors of the Nineteenth Century, but the tremendous changes …
Frames of Meaning
The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science
Av HM Collins, TJ Pinch
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1982. Taking a radical interpretation of the Kuhnian concept of paradigm incommensurability, the authors begin by discussing the difficulties of gaining access to the ideas of communities with different rational categories, and then define the subject area of parapsychology, …
Empiricism, Explanation and Rationality
An Introduction to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1986. All students of social science must confront a number of important philosophical issues. This introduction to the philosophy of the social sciences provides coherent answers to questions about empiricism, explanation and rationality. It evaluates contemporary writings …
Evidence and Meaning
Studies in Analytic Philosophy
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of warrant statements – statements which indicated something about the grounds on behalf of some further judgement, choice or action. The first part of the study is concerned with the role of warrant statements in theoretical discourse; while the …
Boundaries of the Universe
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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The boundaries of space exploration are being pushed back constantly, but the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is as great as ever. Among other things this book deals with astronomical instruments and their application, recent discoveries in the solar system, stellar …
Scientific Revolution
Av Peter Harman
Inbunden, 2008
2586 kr
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Originally published in 1983.This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows how the transformation in world-view during the period was affected by broader historical terms. …
Common Scientist of the Seventeenth Century
A Study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1708
Inbunden, 2008
3156 kr
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Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London and the Dublin Philosophical Society were a central feature of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume shows that a study of the work and membership of these groups is essential before any realistic assessment can be …
Cooke and Wheatstone
And the Invention of the Electric Telegraph
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was …
Soviet Marxism and Natural Science
1917-1932
Inbunden, 2008
3906 kr
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Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against established authority. The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first …
Objectivity, Science and Society
Interpreting nature and society in the age of the crisis of science
Inbunden, 2008
997 kr
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Originally published in 1986. This work remains of compelling interest to those concerned with the natural sciences and their social problems. It puts forward original and unorthodox ideas about the philosophy of and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep …
Experience and Theory
An Essay in the Philosophy of Science
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1966. This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought. Part One is concerned with the logic underlying empirical discourse before its subjection to the various constraints, imposed by the …
Evolutionary Theory and Christian Belief
The Unresolved Conflict
Av David Lack
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1957. This book is concerned with the conflict between "Darwinism" as the Victorians called it, and Christianity, a conflict here re-stated in modern terms because it so vitally affects our understanding of human nature and human values today. The opening chapter describes …
Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought
Av P B Medawar
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with Whewell, Pierce and Popper can give the scientist a useful insight into the way he thinks.
Philosophy of Science and Sociology
From the Methodological Doctrine to Research Practice
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1983. This book concentrates on the impact of philosophy of science on sociology and other disciplines. It argues that the impact of the philosophy of science on sociology from the rise of the Vienna Circle until the mid-1980s resulted in a deep-reaching and, in the author’s …
Royal Society: Concept and Creation
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1967. The origin of the Royal Society has long been obscured by baffling discrepancies in the evidence. This volume investigates its underlying purpose and creation, at the same time uncovering the real nature of its debt to Francis Bacon and its role in the scientific …
Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science
Av Paolo Rossi
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1968. This volume discusses Francis Bacon’s thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon’s philosophy and was in turn influenced by it. It examines the influence of magical and alchemical traditions on Bacon and his opposition to …
Method in the Physical Sciences
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1963. Can one discern certain regularities in the manoeuvrings and techniques employed by scientists and can these be formulated into the methodological principles of science? What is the origin and basis of such principles? Are they imposed by objective realities, do they …
Philosophy and Scientific Realism
Av J J C Smart
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1963. In an introductory chapter the author argues that philosophy ought to be more than the art of clarifying thought and that it should concern itself with outlining a scientifically plausible world view. Early chapters deal with phenomenalism and the reality of …
Science and ESP
Av J R Smythies
Inbunden, 2008
2979 kr
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Originally published in 1967. Representing the viewpoints of philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, physicists, psychoanalysts, parapsychologists, psychiatrists and biologists, this volume discusses many aspects of ESP. The general theme is that the phenomena is very valid and can no longer …
Evidence and Explanation in Social Science
An Inter-disciplinary Approach
Inbunden, 2008
3065 kr
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Originally published in 1975. The main concern of this book is the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an abstract level by social scientists, and their facts, the material organized in an empirical analysis. The author draws on material from several disciplines to explore …
