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by Bruno Latour
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of...
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning <BR>
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of...
Is Water H2O?
Evidence, Realism and Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book exhibits deep philosophical quandaries and intricacies of the historical development of science lying behind a simple and fundamental item of common sense in modern science, namely the composition of water as H2O. Three main phases of development are critically re-examined, covering the...
by Steve Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
For centuries, science and religion have been portrayed as diametrically opposed. In this provocative new book, Steve Fuller examines the apparent clash between science and religion by focusing on the heated debates about evolution and intelligent design theory. In so doing, he claims that science...
by K. Brad Wray
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scientific knowledge. However, philosophers have misunderstood Kuhn's view, treating him as a relativist...
Making Natural Knowledge
Constructivism and the History of Science, with a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Arguably the best available introduction to constructivism, a research paradigm that has dominated the history of science for the past forty years, Making Natural Knowledge reflects on the importance of this theory, tells the history of its rise to prominence, and traces its most important tensions.
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A Final Story
Science, Myth, and Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Popular science readers embrace epics—the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wilson or Steven Weinberg deliberately seek to move...
Doing Research in Political Science
An Introduction to Comparative Methods and Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
This is an immensely helpful book for students starting their own research… an excellent introduction to the comparative method giving an authoritative overview over the research process
- Klaus Armingeon, University of Bern
Doing Research in Political Science is the book for mastering...
by Steven Yearley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1988, this book provides students with a way to increase their understanding of the role of science and technology in society. Steven Yearley draws on and develops ideas from research in the sociology and politics of science to address, in particular: the nature of scientific knowledge...
Science and Sensibility
Negotiating an Ecology of Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While...
Understanding the Earth System
Compartments, Processes and Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume includes revised versions of most of the presentations made at the International Conference «Understanding the Earth Sys tem: Compartments, Processes and Interactions" held on November 24-26, 1999 in Bonn. The Conference was organized by the German National Committee on Global...
by Praveen Gupta, Brett E. Trusko
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A GROUNDBREAKING GUIDE TO THE ART, SCIENCE, TOOLS, AND DEPLOYMENT OF INNOVATION
"It has never been more important to educate people and organizations how to out-imagine, out-create, and out-innovate....The insight and experiences captured by [this book] make an important contribution toward reaching...
The Science of Synthesis
Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Debora Hammond's The Science of Synthesis explores the development of general systems theory and the individuals who gathered together around that idea to form the Society for General Systems Research. In examining the life and work of the SGSR's five founding members-Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Since the 17th century, autobiography has an honorable place in the study of history. In 1930, the preeminent historian of psychology, Edwin Boring, writes that a science separated from its history lacks direction and promises a future of uncertain importance. To understand what psychology is and...