Styles of Thinking in Science and Technology : Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Vienna, September 10-12, 2008

Hunger, Hermann (EDT)

ISBN 10: 3700168462 / ISBN 13: 9783700168461

Edité par Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2011

N° de réf. du vendeur 19343988-n

Synopsis :

In 1994 the late Alistair Crombie published his monumental work Styles of Scientific Thinking in the European Tradition. He distinguished between six styles of inquiry, demonstration and explanation diversified by their subject-matters, by their general conceptions of nature, and by scientific experience (publishers prospectus): postulation, the experimental argument, hypothetical modelling, taxonomy, probabilistic and statistical ysis, historical derivation. Fourteen years later it is time to reconsider this fascinating topical subject, in order to broaden earlier, Eurocentric approaches. Which philosophical, tural, religious, political, economic influences can be identified that led to certain styles of thinking in science and technology all over the world and that influenced their further development? Cross-tural influences and interrelations are of special interest. How are such traditions of thinking transmitted to later generations, to other tures? How are they modified in the course of history? The Third Conference of the European Society for the History of Science would like to give a platform to all historians and philosophers of science and technology who are interested in these questions. nna with its scientific and tural institutions that played a crucial role in the history of science is an ideal city for such an event.

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Titre : Styles of Thinking in Science and Technology...
Éditeur : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Date d'édition : 2011
Etat : New