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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Arguing About Science is an outstanding, engaging introduction to the essential topics in philosophy of science, edited by two leading experts in the field. This exciting and innovative anthology contains a selection of classic and contemporary readings that examine a broad range of issues, from classic...
The Kaleidoscope of Science
The Israel Colloquium: Studies in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection is the first proceedings volume of the lectures delivered within the framework of the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, in its year of inauguration 1981-82. It thus marks the beginning of a new venture. Rather than attempting to express an ideology...
Getting Science Wrong
Why the Philosophy of Science Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
When Galileo dropped cannon-balls from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, he did more than overturn centuries of scientific orthodoxy. At a stroke, he established a new conception of the scientific method based upon careful experimentation and rigorous observation - and also laid the groundwork...
The War of the Jesus and Darwin Fishes
Religion and Science in the Postmodern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This volume's title stems from an observable and seemingly amusing phenomenon--the placement of fish symbols on the rear of automobiles. There are two kinds: one a fish outline with a cross, exhibited by Christians; the other a fish outline filled with the word "evolution," with little legs...
The Rational and the Social (RLE Social Theory)
How to Understand Science in a Social World
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sketching recent sociological approaches to science, notably the strong programme – Bloor’s ‘science of science’ and Barnes’s ‘finitism’...
The Cognitive Science of Science
Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.
Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific...
Red, Black, and Objective
Science, Sociology, and Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Drawing on the empirical findings generated by researchers in science studies, and adopting Kropotkin's concept of anarchism as one of the social sciences, Red, Black, and Objective expounds and develops an anarchist account of science as a social construction and social institution. Restivo's account...
by John TO Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
How did the cosmos, and our own special part of it, come to be? How did life emerge and how did we arise within it? What can we say about the essential nature of the physical world? What can be said about the physical basis of consciousness? What can science tell or not tell us about the nature and origin...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Science in the Changing World, first published in 1933, contains a series of broadcasted presentations on the relationship between science and the development of European civilisation in the first half of the 20th century. Specifically, each talk attempts to reflect the crisis through which the world...
Philosophy of Science
The Historical Background
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This anthology of selections from the works of noted philosophers affords the student an immediate contact with the unique historical background of the philosophy of science. The selections, many of which have not been readily accessible, follow the development of the philosophy of science from 1786...
Modern Political Science
Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of individual political phenomena. What caused this change? Modern Political Science--the first authoritative...
The Doomsday Lobby
Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
Federal patronage of science was never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution, but they did seek to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Art” by granting inventors patent rights. However, direct subvention to scientists and scientific organizations was not considered appropriate...
Science and the Good
The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are doomed to fail
In this illuminating book, James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky recount the centuries-long, passionate quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The "new moral science" led by such figures as...
Scientists, Democracy and Society
A Community of Inquirers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This monograph examines the relationship between science and democracy. The author argues that there is no clear-cut division between science and the rest of society. Rather, scientists and laypeople form a single community of inquiry, which aims at the truth.
To defend his theory, the author...