The Changing Image of the Sciences

Langue : anglais

Edité par Kluwer Academic, 2002

1402008473 / 9781402008474

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Hardcover, x + 226 pages, numerous b&w illustrations in text, NOT ex-library. Internally very good, clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show superficial damage to upper spine (two small areas of deep abrasions with surface loss), two stray pen marks on the back. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Foreword; Introduction / Albert van Helden; In Our Own Image: Creating the Computer / Michael S. Mahoney [From "Giant Brain" to Information Appliance; Transparency of Software; World of the Computer]; Changing Images of Chemistry / Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent [Introduction; Creating Life; Wonderful World of Chemistry; Ways Back to Nature]; Changing Image of Biology in the Twentieth Century / Garland E. Allen [Introduction; Nineteenth Century Background; Biology and the Physical Sciences: Experimentalism and Reductionism; Technological and Institutional Imperative; Integrative Processes; Economic, Social and Technological Context in the Development of an Experimentally and Mechanistically Based Biology in the Twentieth Century (Industrialization of Agricultural Productivity; Imperative of Social Control; Differences Among Eugenics Activities in Different Countries; A New Eugenics Today?); Conclusion]; Image of Physics / Abraham Pais [Introduction by the Editors; Introduction; Einstein's and Bohr's Views on Philosophy; On Relativity Theory (Special Theory; General Theory); On Complementarity; Some Final Comments]; Re-imag(in)ing Women in Science: Projecting Identity and Negotiating Gender in Science / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt & Donald L. Opitz [Introduction; Margaret Cavendish: Defiant Natural Philosopher with an Independent Voice; Maria Sibylla Merian: Innovative Entomologist Working within Conventions; Mary Somerville: Queen of Celestial (and Domestic) Science; Ada Lovelace: Mathematician Calculating Body Image; Agnes Pockels: Surface Chemist and "Hausfrau"; Jantina Tammes: Geneticist Defining Her Own "Weak Constitution"; Marie Curie: Independent and Eminent Collaborator; Conclusions]; Science in the Mirror of "Big History" / David Christian [Introduction; Science in the Mirror of "Big History"; Big History; Science as Creation Myth; Systems of Knowledge; Pre-Human Knowledge Systems; Human Knowledge Systems of the Palaeolithic; Science as a System of Knowledge; Science and the Future?; Conclusion; Appendix: A Modern Creation Story]; Changing Images of Unity and Disunity in the Philosophy of Science / Steve Fuller [Misrecognition of Unity in Recent History and Philosophy of Science (Gospel According to the Disunificationists; Reducing (Away) the Philosophical Component of Reductionism; Root Image of Disunity as Intercalation); Unity and Disunity as Expressions of Constructivism and Realism (Natural and the Normative: Aligned or Opposed?; Evaluation and Application: Clear or Blurred?); Historical Conditions for the Unity and Disunity of Science (Unity of Science as Natural: Deductive and Inductive Versions; Unity of Science as Artificial: - Pro-Unity: From Sublation to Reduction - Anti-Unity: From Kant to Kuhn); Conclusion: Beyond Misrecognizing to Rediscovering the Unity of Science]; Authors and Editors; Index -- This volume is written as a reaction to the worldwide decreasing interest in the natural sciences. It addresses many intriguing questions. How is the changing image of the distinct sciences experienced by the general public, by the scientists themselves, or in disciplines in which natural sciences are applied? How can it be connected to the phenomenon of the low number of women in science? It is of interest to researchers, teachers, and students of natural sciences, the history of science, and philosophy.…

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Titre
The Changing Image of the Sciences
Auteur
Ida H. Stamhuis; Teun Koetsier; Cornelis de Pater; Albert van Helden
Éditeur
Kluwer Academic
Année de publication
2002
État de l'article
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Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1402008473
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781402008474
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1st Edition

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