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Science as a Process
An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science
Häftad, 1990
400 kr
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"Legend is overdue for replacement, and an adequate replacement must attend to the process of science as carefully as Hull has done. I share his vision of a serious account of the social and intellectual dynamics of science that will avoid both the rosy blur of Legend and the facile charms of …
Evolution As Entropy
Toward a Unified Theory of Biology
Av Daniel R. Brooks, E. O. Wiley
Häftad, 1988
382 kr
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"By combining recent advances in the physical sciences with some of the novel ideas, techniques, and data of modern biology, this book attempts to achieve a new and different kind of evolutionary synthesis. I found it to be challenging, fascinating, infuriating, and provocative, but certainly not …
Explaining Science
A Cognitive Approach
Häftad, 1990
323 kr
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Debate over the nature of science has recently moved from the halls of academia into the public sphere, where it has taken shape as the "science wars." At issue is the question of whether scientific knowledge is objective and universal or socially mediated, whether scientific truths are independent …
Quantum Dialogue
The Making of a Revolution
Av Mara Beller
Häftad, 2001
365 kr
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This work seeks to show that science is rooted not just in conversation but in disagreement, doubt and uncertainty. Mara Beller argues that it is precisely this culture of dialogue and controversy within the scientific community that fuels creativity. Beller draws her argument from her reading of …
Galileo, Courtier
The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism
Häftad, 1994
648 kr
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In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. In this fascinating cultural and social history of science, Biagioli argues that Galileo's courtly role was integral to …
Life's Splendid Drama
Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940
Häftad, 1998
348 kr
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The story of life's splendid drama has captivated generations of the general public, just as it has intrigued biologists, especially those who began to try to solve evolutionary puzzles in the years immediately after the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Yet histories of the …
Taking the Naturalistic Turn, Or How Real Philosophy of Science Is Done
Häftad, 1993
485 kr
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Philosophers of science traditionally have ignored the details of scientific research, and the result has often been theories that lack relevance either to science or to philosophy in general. In this volume, leading philosophers of biology discuss the limitations of this tradition and the …
Images of Science
Essays on Realism and Empiricism
Av Paul M. Churchland, Clifford A. Hooker
Häftad, 1985
382 kr
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"Churchland and Hooker have collected ten papers by prominent philosophers of science which challenge van Fraassen's thesis from a variety of realist perspectives. Together with van Fraassen's extensive reply . . . these articles provide a comprehensive picture of the current debate in philosophy …
Quantum Mechanics
Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony
Häftad, 1994
553 kr
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Why does one theory "succeed" while another, possibly clearer interpretation, fails? By exploring two observationally equivalent, yet conceptually incompatible, views of quantum mechanics, James T. Cushing shows how historical contingency can be crucial to determining a theory's construction and …
Discipline and Experience
The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution
Av Peter Dear
Häftad, 1995
425 kr
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Although the scientific revolution has long been regarded as the beginning of modern science, there has been little consensus about its true character. While the application of mathematics to the study of the natural world has always been recognized as an important factor, the role of experiment …
Politics of Evolution
Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London
Häftad, 1992
920 kr
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Looking for the first time at the cut-price anatomy schools rather than genteel Oxbridge, Desmond winkles out pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas in reform-minded and politically charged early nineteenth-century London. In the process, he reveals the underside of London intellectual and social life in …
Shaky Game
Av Arthur Fine
Inbunden, 1996
852 kr
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In this new edition, Arthur Fine looks at Einstein's philosophy of science and develops his own views on realism. A new Afterword discusses the reaction to Fine's own theory. "What really led Einstein ...to renounce the new quantum order? For those interested in this question, this book is …
Shaky Game
Av Arthur Fine
Häftad, 1996
323 kr
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In this new edition, Arthur Fine looks at Einstein's philosophy of science and develops his own views on realism. A new Afterword discusses the reaction to Fine's own theory."What really led Einstein . . . to renounce the new quantum order? For those interested in this question, this book is …
Descartes' Metaphysical Physics
Inbunden, 1992
1202 kr
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In this first book-length treatment of Descartes' important and influential natural philosophy, Daniel Garber is principally concerned with Descartes' accounts of matter and motion--the joint between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests. These accounts constitute the point at which the …
Descartes' Metaphysical Physics
Häftad, 1992
485 kr
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In this first book-length treatment of Descartes' important and influential natural philosophy, Daniel Garber is principally concerned with Descartes' accounts of matter and motion—the joint between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests. These accounts constitute the point at which the …
What Emotions Really Are
The Problem of Psychological Categories
Häftad, 1998
297 kr
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This study argues that much research of the emotions has been misguided. It attempts to show that "emotion" encompasses psychological states of very different, and thus not comparable, kinds. Some emotions, such as a brief flaring up of anger in response to some experience, are evolutionary …
Styles of Scientific Thought
The German Genetics Community, 1900-1933
Inbunden, 1993
1236 kr
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In this detailed historical and sociological study of the development of scientific ideas, Jonathan Harwood argues that there is no such thing as a unitary scientific method driven by an internal logic. Rather, there are national styles of science that are defined by different values, norms, …
Styles of Scientific Thought
The German Genetics Community, 1900-1933
Häftad, 1993
425 kr
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In this detailed historical and sociological study of the development of scientific ideas, Jonathan Harwood argues that there is no such thing as a unitary scientific method driven by an internal logic. Rather, there are national styles of science that are defined by different values, norms, …
Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics
Inbunden, 1993
1056 kr
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In this first modern, critical assessment of the place of mathematics in Berkeley's philosophy and Berkeley's place in the history of mathematics, Douglas M. Jesseph provides a bold reinterpretation of Berkeley's work. Jesseph challenges the prevailing view that Berkeley's mathematical writings are …
Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics
Häftad, 1993
348 kr
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In this first modern, critical assessment of the place of mathematics in Berkeley's philosophy and Berkeley's place in the history of mathematics, Douglas M. Jesseph provides a bold reinterpretation of Berkeley's work. Jesseph challenges the prevailing view that Berkeley's mathematical writings are …
Squaring the Circle
The War between Hobbes and Wallis
Inbunden, 2000
1236 kr
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In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of "squaring of the circle" (constructing a square equal in area to a given circle). With a scathing rebuttal to Hobbes's claims, the mathematician John Wallis began one of the longest and most intense …
Squaring the Circle
The War between Hobbes and Wallis
Häftad, 2000
425 kr
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In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of "squaring of the circle" (constructing a square equal in area to a given circle). With a scathing rebuttal to Hobbes's claims, the mathematician John Wallis began one of the longest and most intense …
In the Wake of Chaos
Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems
Inbunden, 1993
852 kr
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Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with "chaotic" models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new …
In the Wake of Chaos
Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems
Häftad, 1994
263 kr
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Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical systems has become a widespread fascination with "chaotic" models of everything from business cycles to brainwaves to heart attacks. But what exactly does this explosion of new …
Modeling Nature
Häftad, 1995
348 kr
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A history of population ecology which traces two generations of science and scientists from the opening of the 20th century through 1970. Kingsland chronicles the careers of key figures and the field's theoretical, empirical and institutional development, with attention paid to tensions between the …
From Mineralogy to Geology
The Foundations of a Science, 1650-1830
Häftad, 1994
323 kr
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"A fine treatment of this critical time in geology's history. Although it goes against our standard histories of the field, Laudan defends her views convincingly. Her style is direct, with carefully reasoned personal opinions and interpretations clearly defined."—Jere H. Lipps, The Scientist
Science and Relativism
Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science
Av Larry Laudan
Häftad, 1990
229 kr
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In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is …
Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge
Häftad, 1996
553 kr
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We may learn from our mistakes, but this work argues that, where experimental knowledge is concerned, we haven't begun to learn enough. It provides a critique of the subjective Bayesian view of statistical inference, and proposes the author's own error-statistical approach as a more robust …
State of Nature
Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900-1950
Av Gregg Mitman
Inbunden, 1992
1520 kr
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Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal …
Biology Takes Form
Animal Morphology and the German Universities, 1800-1900
Inbunden, 1995
1360 kr
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This study argues that morphology was integral to the life sciences of the 19th century. It traces the development of morphological research in German universities and illuminates significant institutional and intellectual changes in 19th-century German biology. Although there were neither …
