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by Heather Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and dynamic shifts in the public image...
Conducting Research in Conservation
Social Science Methods and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Conducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the expanding and increasingly multidisciplinary field of environmental conservation.
The first section on planning a research project includes chapters on the need for...
State, Science and the Skies
Governmentalities of the British Atmosphere
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Utilizing environmental archival materials from the UK, State, Science and the Skies presents a groundbreaking historical account of the development of a state science of atmospheric pollution.
Offers the most extensive historical and geographical account of atmospheric government and pollution...
by Erwin Schrödinger
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the texts of two of Schrödinger's...
A Lesson for the Future of Our Science
My Testimony on Lord Patrick M S Blackett
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This unique volume contains a tribute to Lord Patrick M S Blackett through the testimony of Professor Antonino Zichichi, who was one of Blackett's pupils in the experiment at the Sphinx Observatory, Europe's highest lab (3580 meters a.s.l.), at Jungfraujoch. The book presents an overview of Blackett's...
Science, Myth or Magic?
A struggle for existence
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
'Tony Barnett is a masterly scientist and communicator. (The two don't always go together.) As a writer and broadcaster, he displays an encyclopedic range of knowledge--incisive, profound, often subversive--with astringent wit, common sense and irreverence.' Barry Jones, AO, FAA, FAHA, FTSE
'A...
Doing Science
In the Light of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Nearly all philosophers have dealt with the outcomes of scientific research, and have overlooked its philosophical presuppositions, such as those of rationality and realism. Although these presuppositions are mostly tacit and thus easily overlooked, actually they are supremely important, since some...
Pursuing the Unity of Science
Ideology and Scientific Practice from the Great War to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
From 1918 to the late 1940s, a host of influential scientists and intellectuals in Europe and North America were engaged in a number of far-reaching unity of science projects. In this period of deep social and political divisions, scientists collaborated to unify sciences across disciplinary boundaries...
by István Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This guidebook introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of science and scientists in Budapest - statues, busts, plaques, buildings, and other artefacts. According to the Hungarian-American Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi, this metropolis at the crossroads of Europe has a special atmosphere...
by Andrew Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
In this illuminating book Andrew Gregory takes an original approach to Plato's philosophy of science by reassessing Plato's views on how we might investigate and explain the natural world. He demonstrates that many of the common charges against Plato - disinterest, ignorance, dismissal of observation...
Philosophy in Science
An Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" — space, time, causality, the structure of the universe — are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories. This book traces the complex paths that discussion of these topics has followed, from Plato and Aristotle, through...
Scientific Progress
A Study Concerning the Nature of the Relation Between Successive Scientific Theories
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
For the philosopher interested in the idea of objective knowledge of the real world, the nature of science is of special importance, for science, and more particularly physics, is today considered to be paradigmatic in its affording of such knowledge. And no understand ing of science is complete...
Deep Thinking
What Mathematics Can Teach Us About the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
There is more than one way to think. Most people are familiar with the systematic, rule-based thinking that one finds in a mathematical proof or a computer program. But such thinking does not produce breakthroughs in mathematics and science nor is it the kind of thinking that results in significant...
Philosophy of Science
A Contemporary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg’s updated and substantially revised Third Edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving together lucid explanations and clear analyses, the volume...