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  • Aesthetics, Industry & Science

    Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society

    de M. Norton Wise ...
    On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psychophysics, members of this small but growing group—which soon included Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Ernst Brücke, Werner Siemens, and Hermann von Helmholtz ... Leer más

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  • The Values of Precision

    Edición de M. Norton Wise ...
    The Values of Precision examines how exactitude has come to occupy such a prominent place in Western culture. What has been the value of numerical values? Beginning with the late eighteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, the essays in this volume support the view that centralizing states--with their increasingly widespread bureaucracies for managing trade, taxation, and armies--and ... Leer más

    $70.59 USD

  • Growing Explanations

    Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

    de Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison, Amy Dahan Dalmedico ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them up rather than breaking them down. This collection reflects on the history and significance of this ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Science without Laws

    Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives

    de Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects—such as flies, mice, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Uncommon Dissent

    Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing

    de William Dembski ...
    Recent years have seen the rise to prominence of ever more sophisticated philosophical and scientific critiques of the ideas marketed under the name of Darwinism. In Uncommon Dissent, mathematician and philosopher William A. Dembski brings together essays by leading intellectuals who find one or more aspects of Darwinism unpersuasive. As Dembski explains, Darwinism has gathered around itself an ... Leer más

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  • Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death

    Essays on Science and Culture

    de Evelyn Fox Keller ...
    The essays included here represent Fox Keller's attempts to integrate the insights of feminist theory with those of her contemporaries in the history and philosophy of science. ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • Outsider Scientists

    Routes to Innovation in Biology

    Edición de Oren Harman, Michael R. Dietrich ...
    Outsider Scientists describes the transformative role played by “outsiders” in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose primary training was in other fields: mathematics, physics, chemistry, linguistics, philosophy, history, anthropology, engineering, and even literature. ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Third Lens

    Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology

    de Andrew S. Reynolds ...
    Does science aim at providing an account of the world that is literally true or objectively true? Understanding the difference requires paying close attention to metaphor and its role in science. In The Third Lens, Andrew S. Reynolds argues that metaphors, like microscopes and other instruments, are a vital tool in the construction of scientific knowledge and explanations of how the world works. ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Arguing About Science

    Edición de Alexander Bird, James Ladyman ...
    Series series Arguing About Philosophy
    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 problems such as scientific reasoning; causation; and scientific realism, to more recent topics ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • When Maps Become the World

    de Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther ...
    Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world.This ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Metaphysics of Biology

    de John Dupré ...
    Series series Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
    This Element is an introduction to the metaphysics of biology, a very general account of the nature of the living world. The first part of the Element addresses more traditionally philosophical questions - whether biological systems are reducible to the properties of their physical parts, causation and laws of nature, substantialist and processualist accounts of life, and the nature of biological ... Leer más

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  • The Mind of Society

    de Yvon Provencal ...
    First Published in 1999. This book brings together the ideas of theoretician Marvin Minsky and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Provencal's theory inverts Minsky's "society of the mind" into the "mind of society," giving a new and firm basis to the Teilhardian idea of Noosphere and allowing for unsuspected transdisciplinary regularities between several scientific domains including physics, ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD