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Cambridge University Press Darwinism and its Discontents
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Cambridge University Press Purpose in the Living World Creation and Emergent Evolution
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Cambridge University Press Discovering Cell Mechanisms
Book SynopsisBetween 1940 and 1970, pioneers in the new field of cell biology discovered the operative parts of cells and their contributions to cell life. William Bechtel emphasises how mechanisms were discovered by cell biologists, focusing especially on the way in which new instruments made these inquiries possible.Trade ReviewThis volume…will be useful not only to cell biologists interested in the embryology of their field, but also to theorists and historians of science concerned with the boundaries of fields of intellectual inquiry. -Choice"For decades historians have been preoccupied with genetics and molecular biology. However, mitochondria, ribosomes, Golgi bodies, and lysosomes explain the life processes of the cell; DNA does so only peripherally. This is their much needed story." -Douglas Allchin, Isis"Historians will appreciate Bechtel's thorough research in the archives of the Rochefeller Foundation and the American Society for Cell Biology, as well as his use of oral history interviews with some of the principal scientists...Cell biologists especially welcome this new history of their field." -Lindley Darden, University of Maryland, Journal of the History of BiologyTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: Cell Mechanisms and Cell Biology: 1. A different kind of science; 2. The organization of science into disciplines; 3. The new discipline of cell biology; Part II. Explaining Cellular Phenomena through Mechanisms: 4. Historical conceptions of mechanism; 5. Twentieth century conceptions of mechanism; 6. Current conceptions of mechanisms; 7. Representing and reasoning about mechanisms; 8. Levels of organization and reduction; 9. Organization: from Cartesian to biological mechanisms; 10. Discovering and testing models of mechanisms; 11. Conclusions; Part III. The Locus of Cell Mechanisms: Terra Incognita Between Cytology and Biochemistry: 12. Cytological contributions to discovering cell mechanisms up to 1940; 13. Biochemical contributions to discovering cell mechanisms up to 1940; 14. The need to enter the Terra Incognita between cytology and biochemistry; Part IV. Creating New Instruments and Research Techniques to Study Cell Mechanisms: 15. The epistemology of evidence: judging artifacts; 16. The ultracentrifuge and cell fractionation; 17. The electron microscope and electron microscopy; 18. A case study of an artifact charge; 19. Equipped with new instruments and techniques to enter Terra Incognita; Part V. Entering the Terra Incognita Between Biochemistry and Cytology: 20. First steps towards cell biology at the Rockefeller Institute: Claude's introduction of cell fractionation; 21. Robert Bensley: an alternative approach to fractionalism; 22. Competing interpretations of fractions from normal cells; 23. Linking Claude's microsomes to protein synthesis; 24. Adding a biochemical perspective to the Rockefeller Laboratory; 25. Adding electron microscopy as a tool; 26. The state of cell studies at the end of the 1940's; Part VI. New Knowledge: the Mechanisms of the Cytoplasm: 27. The mitochondrion; 28. Microsomes, the endoplasmic reticulum, and ribosomes; 29. Two additional organelles; 30. Giving cell biology an institutional identity.
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Cambridge University Press Science and Spirituality Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Newton Critical Essays
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Cambridge University Press Objecting to God
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Cambridge University Press The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution
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Cambridge University Press Real Science What It Is and What It Means
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Cambridge University Press Machine Dreams
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Cambridge University Press A Life Scientists Guide to Physical Chemistry
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Cambridge University Press Machine Dreams
Book SynopsisMachine Dreams recounts the story of how the computer came to transform the very content of American economics, and how the mathematician John von Neumann inadvertently became the most important thinker for the economics profession in the 21st century.Trade Review'In Machine Dreams the most exciting historian of economic thought of our time takes on one of the most fascinating themes of the intellectual history of the twentieth century - the dream of creating machines that can think and how this has affected the social sciences. The result is an extraordinary book that deserves to be read by everyone interested in the social sciences.' Richard Swedberg, University of Stockholm'Phil Mirowski reminds me of an investigative reporter with a world-class story. He has gone straight to the heart of a really interesting problem - the emergence of economics' modern era in the crucible of World War II - and come back with a detailed account of events at The Cowles Commission and the RAND Corporation. It is news, the best that can be said quickly. It is opinion: cyborg economics (meaning purely cognitive economics) is not the sort of science Mirowski wants to see. And it is sensationally interesting.' David Warsh, The Boston Globe'Machine Dreams is an astonishing performance of synthetic scholarship. Mirowski traces the present day predicaments of economic theory to its intellectual reformulation and institutional restructuring by military funding and in the crucibles of World War II and the Cold War. His demonstration that the mathematical economics of the postwar era is a complex response to the challenges of 'cyborg' science, the attempt to unify the study of human beings and intelligent machines through John von Neumann's general theory of automata, is bound to be controversial. His critics, however, will have to content with a breathtakingly wide range of published and unpublished evidence in fields ranging from psychology to operations research he presents. This noir history of economic thought will change its readers' understanding of twentieth-century economics.' Duncan Foley, New School University'… this is an important book that all economists who are genuinely interested in the future of their discipline should read.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'… a remarkable achievement. It is hard to imagine a historian who was not an economist (as Mirowski is) being able to encompass the economics of the second half of the 20th century in its diversity and technicality.' London Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Cyborg agonistes; 2. Some cyborg genealogies; or, how the demon got its bots; 3. John von Neumann and the cyborg incursion into economics; 4. The military, the scientists and the revised rules of the game; 5. Do cyborgs dream of efficient markets?; 6. The empire strikes back; 7. Core wars; 8. Machines who think versus machines that sell; Envoi; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Thomas Kuhn
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Cambridge University Press Structural Proof Theory
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Cambridge University Press Simplicity Inference and Modelling Keeping It Sophisticatedly Simple
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Cambridge University Press The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry
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Cambridge University Press The Logic of Concept Expansion
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Cambridge University Press Descartes System of Natural Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press The Cognitive Basis of Science
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Cambridge University Press Discovering Cell Mechanisms
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Cambridge University Press Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes
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Cambridge University Press Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism
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Cambridge University Press Free Logic
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Cambridge University Press Symmetries in Physics
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Cambridge University Press Descartes A Biography
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Cambridge University Press Selfish Sounds and Linguistic Evolution
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Cambridge University Press Lifes Solution Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe
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Cambridge University Press Darwinism and its Discontents
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Cambridge University Press Numbers Language and the Human Mind
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Cambridge University Press Quantum Theory as an Emergent Phenomenon
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Cambridge University Press Kant
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Cambridge University Press Paulis Exclusion Principle
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Carnap
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Cambridge University Press The Selfish Meme
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Cambridge University Press Arguments about Arguments
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Cambridge University Press The Methodology of Experimental Economics
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Cambridge University Press The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Cambridge University Press Reexamining the QuantumClassical Relation Beyond Reductionism and Pluralism
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Cambridge University Press Science and Ethics
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Cambridge University Press Understanding SpaceTime
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Cambridge University Press Reasoning in Biological Discoveries Essays on Mechanisms Interfield Relations and Anomaly Resolution Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
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Cambridge University Press Defending Einstein
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Cambridge University Press Newton as Philosopher
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Cambridge University Press Human Evolution and Christian Ethics 28 New Studies in Christian Ethics Series Number 28
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