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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Can Science End War
Book SynopsisFree-roaming killer drones stalk the battlespace looking for organic targets. Human combatants are programmed to feel no pain. High-power microwave beams detonate munitions, jam communications, and cook internal organs.Trade Review"A clearly written and well-paced investigation into the character and nature of war, and the role of science and scientists in determining both. There are fascinating insights into 3D guns, non-lethal weapons and the author�s speciality, space-based systems. Bridging the worlds of scholarship and military practice, Dolman is uniquely qualified to comment on the science/war nexus and how all this impacts on the 'real world'."Christopher Coker, London School of Economics"Can Science End War? illustrates the changing nature of technology and human conflict with vivid analysis of war fought from ancient history to today, and a terrifying view of how modern science could influence future outbreaks of violence. Current events such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, access to space, and new operations in the cyber environment demand that we understand and confront the questions Dolman puts before us. Our political, military, and scientific communities need to consider the challenges he poses if we are to accurately navigate the path to peace in this rapidly changing world; for, after all, ignorance is the reason all wars are lost."General Charles A. Horner, former USAF Four-Star General and Commander in Chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Space Command "At a time when many seem determined to seek simple technological solutions to the complex political and human problem of future armed conflict, Dolman�s perspective may help to correct unwise thinking about defence and international security." Survival: Global Politics and StrategyTable of ContentsPreface: Be Careful What You Look For page vi 1 Can Science End War? 1 2 Is War Good for Science? 26 3 Can Scientists End War? 50 4 Can Science Limit War? 77 5 What Will Tomorrow’s War Look Like? 106 6 What Will End War? 138 Epilogue 168 Bibliography 174 Index 181
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Can Science End War
Book SynopsisFree-roaming killer drones stalk the battlespace looking for organic targets. Human combatants are programmed to feel no pain. High-power microwave beams detonate munitions, jam communications, and cook internal organs.Trade Review"A clearly written and well-paced investigation into the character and nature of war, and the role of science and scientists in determining both. There are fascinating insights into 3D guns, non-lethal weapons and the author�s speciality, space-based systems. Bridging the worlds of scholarship and military practice, Dolman is uniquely qualified to comment on the science/war nexus and how all this impacts on the �real world�."Christopher Coker, London School of EconomicsCan Science End War? illustrates the changing nature of technology and human conflict with vivid analysis of war fought from ancient history to today, and a terrifying view of how modern science could influence future outbreaks of violence. Current events such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, access to space, and new operations in the cyber environment demand that we understand and confront the questions Dolman puts before us. Our political, military, and scientific communities need to consider the challenges he poses if we are to accurately navigate the path to peace in this rapidly changing world; for, after all, ignorance is the reason all wars are lost.General Charles A. Horner, former USAF Four-Star General and Commander in Chief of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Space Command "At a time when many seem determined to seek simple technological solutions to the complex political and human problem of future armed conflict, Dolman�s perspective may help to correct unwise thinking about defence and international security." Survival: Global Politics and StrategyTable of ContentsPreface: Be Careful What You Look For page vi 1 Can Science End War? 1 2 Is War Good for Science? 26 3 Can Scientists End War? 50 4 Can Science Limit War? 77 5 What Will Tomorrow’s War Look Like? 106 6 What Will End War? 138 Epilogue 168 Bibliography 174 Index 181
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Springer Patrick Suppes Scientific Philosopher Volume 1
Book SynopsisPatrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical and experimental psychology, the foundations of physics, education theory, the philosophy of language, measurement theory, and the philosophy of science.Table of ContentsVolume 1: Introduction; P. Humphreys. Part I: Probability. Some Contributions to Formal Theory of Probability; K. Popper, D. Miller. Elementary Non-Archimedean Representations of Probability for Decision Theory and Games; P.J. Hammond. Random Sequences and Hypotheses Tests; R. Chuaqui. Changing Probability Judgements; I. Levi. Upper and Lower Probability; T.L. Fine. Some Connections between Epistemic Logic and the Theory of Nonadditive Probability; P. Mongin. On the Properties of Conditional Independence; W. Spohn. Qualitative Probabilities Revisited; Z. Domotor. The Monks' Vote: a Dialogue on Unidimensional Probabilistic Geometry; J.-C. Falmagne. Part II: Probabilistic Causality. Probabilistic Causation without Probability; P.W. Holland. Causal Tendency, Necessitivity and Sufficientivity: an Updated Review; I.J. Good. Practical Causal Generalizations; E.W. Adams. In Place of Regression; C. Glymour, P. Spirtes, R. Scheines. Testing Probabilistic Causality; D. Costantini. Psychologistic Aspects of Suppes' Definition of Causality; P. Legrenzi, M. Sonino. Name Index. Subject Index. Volume 2: Part III: Philosophy of Physics. Probability and Quantum Theory; B. Loewer. Schrödinger's Version of EPR, and its Problems; A. Fine. Classical Field Magnitudes; J. Vuillemin. Quantity, Representation and Geometry; B. Mundy. Numerical Experimentation; P. Humphreys. Part IV: Theory Structure. Theories and Theoretical Models; R. Wojcicki. Suppes Predicates and the Construction of Unsolvable Problems in the Axiomatized Sciences; N.C.A. da Costa, F.A. Doria. StructuralExplanation; J.D. Sneed. Part V: Measurement Theory. Fifteen Problems concerning the Representational Theory of Measurement; R.D. Luce, L. Narens. The Meaningfulness of Ordinal Comparisons for General Order Relational Systems; F.S. Roberts, Z.S. Rosenbaum. Theories as Nets: the Case of Combinatorial Measurement Theory; C.U. Moulines, J.A. Díez. Name Index. Subject Index. Volume 3: Part VI: Philosophy of Language and Logic. Patrick Suppes' Contribution to the Philosophy of Language; D. Føllesdal. Open Problems in Relational Grammar; M. Böttner. A Variable-Free Logic for Anaphora; W.C. Purdy. Is Snow White? J. Moravcsik. Can there be Reasons for Putting Limitations on Classical Logic? P. Weingartner. Quantum Logic as a Logic of Identification; J. Hintikka, I. Halonen. Logic and Probability in Quantum Mechanics; M.L. dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini. Part VII: Learning Theory, Action Theory, and Robotics. From Stimulus-Sampling to Array-Similarity Theory; W.K. Estes. Action as Seeing to it that Something is the Case; R. Tuomela, G. Sandu. Command Satisfaction and the Acquisition of Habits; C. Crangle. Part VIII: General Philosophy of Science. Some Observations on Patrick Suppes' Philosophy of Science; M.C. Galavotti. Epilogue. Postscript; P. Suppes. Chronological and Topical Bibliography of Patrick Suppes' Publications. Name Index. Subject Index.
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Cornell University Press Beauty and Revolution in Science
Book SynopsisThe first systematic study of the aesthetic evaluations that scientists pass on their theories.Trade ReviewA valuable, important, persuasively argued book. Highly recommended. * Choice *This is a great book. It clearly and concisely does what it sets out to do: it examines the basic philosophical and sociological theories of the role of aesthetics in science, it identifies the critical assumptions and contradictions that differentiate these views, and it provides a carefully reasoned, well-documented and novel approach to the issues. Best of all, the book is eminently readable. Anyone interested in the bases of scientific controversies, the nature of scientific revolutions, or the similarities and differences between the sciences and the arts should definitely read McAllister's book. It may prove to be as fundamental as Thomas S. Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. * American Scientist *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Concepts of Simultaneity
Book SynopsisThe study concludes with an analysis of simultaneity's importance in general relativity and quantum mechanics.Trade ReviewConcepts of Simultaneity excels at clearly explaining subtle but important issues. The book is incisive and valuable; it will appeal not only to historians and philosophers of physics but also to physicists drawn to the elements of special relativity. -- Alberto A. Martinez Physics Today 2007 This interesting, carefully crafted analysis of some fundamental ideas belongs in good college library collections... Highly recommended. Choice 2007 Concepts of Simultaneity provides a welcome survey of the development of our views and theories of simultaneity, bringing together sources in history, physics and philosophy. The book covers an impressive array of material. -- Jill North American Scientist 2008 The view of simultaneity presented by Max Jammer is almost breathtaking... I think Jammer has written a valuable book. -- Allen I. Janis Sudies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics Presents a very well-researched and thought-provoking analysis of the topic. -- Mark Shumelda History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 2007 I highly recommend the book. -- Craig Callender Isis 2008 Jammer's book is a significant contribution to the literature on the physics of time and merits the attention of both physicists and philosophers of science. -- Howard E. Brandt Mathematical Reviews 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Terminological Preliminaries2. The Concept of Simultaneity in Antiquity3. Medieval Conceptions of Simultaneity4. The Concept of Simultaneity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries5. The Concept of Simultaneity in Classical Physics6. The Transition to the Relativistic Conception of Simultaneity7. Simultaneity in the Special Theory of Relativity8. The Reception of the Relativistic Conception of Simultaneity9. The Conventionality Thesis10. The Promulgation of the Conventionality Thesis11. Symmetry and Transitivity of Simultaneity12. Arguments against the Conventionality Thesis13. Clock Transport Synchrony14. Recent Debates on the Conventionality of Simultaneity15. Simultaneity in General Relativity and in Quantum MechanicsEpilogueIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Lawless Universe Science and the Hunt for Reality
Book SynopsisThought-provoking and controversial, Lawless Universe is a complement to, even an antidote for, books that create the misimpression that science can explain everything.Trade ReviewDr. Rosen knocks down the structure of good science and rebuilds it for the reader, brick by brick, beginning with the most basic differences between objectivity and subjectivity. And through topics that might otherwise leave readers feeling adrift-like quantum theory, metaphysics, and the anthropic principle-Dr. Rosen proves a calm, conscientious guide who sticks by the reader's side. GW Magazine/GW Today 2011Table of ContentsPreface1. Objective or Subjective: That Is the QuestionObjective and SubjectiveThe Objective Outer World: RealityOur Subjective Inner Worlds: FantasiesObjective or Subjective?Objective TruthSubjective TruthLogical TruthDealing with the SubjectiveDealing with the Objective2. The Science of Nature and the Nature of SciencePreliminariesScienceNatureReproducibilityPredictabilityLaw3. Theory: Explanation, Not SpeculationTheoryLogical Implication and Objective TruthGenerality and FundamentalityNaturalityCausationSimplicity and UnificationBeautyFalsifiabilityAn Archetypal Example4. Is Science the Whole Story?Science and MetaphysicsTranscendence and Nontranscendence5. Our Unique UniverseThe Lawless UniverseCosmology6. Nature's LawsRealism and IdealismReductionism and HolismObserver and ObservedQuasi-Isolated System and SurroundingsInitial State and Law of EvolutionExtended Mach PrincipleWhence Order?7. Facing the UniverseHuman ScienceAnthropic PrincipleWhence Order? (Again)Space and Time8. The Hunt for RealityMetaphysical PositionsObjective RealityPerceived RealityPartially Hidden RealityTranscendent RealityCodaGlossaryCombined BibliographyIndex
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University of Toronto Press Science and Ethics La Science et lÉthique
Book SynopsisThe papers from the 2000 symposium of the Royal Society of Canada explore the crucial relationship between science and ethics. In the six papers, presented by scholars and practitioners in fields as varied as psychiatry, law, philosophy, and ethics, the contributors address the central place of ethics in scientific policy, research, and practice. Historic decisions like the place of the 1947 Nuremberg Code, adopted by the International War Crimes Tribunal to establish the foundational ethical principals of research involving human subjects; contemporary policy concerning, and institutional responsibility for, the protection of human subjects; science, technology, and copyright laws in Canada; xenotransplantation (the process of grafting living cells, tissues, and organs from animals to human beings); the privatization of biomedical research; and the relationship between ethics, policies, and research experts: these are the topics under discussion in this timely collection of
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Stanford University Press The Massextinction Debates How Science Works in a
Book SynopsisThis book examines the arguments and behavior of the scientists who have been locked in conflict over two competing theories to explain why, 65 million years ago, most life on earth—including the dinosaurs—perished.
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Stanford University Press The Disunity of Science
Book SynopsisIs science unified or disunified? Over the last century, the question has raised the interest (and hackles) of scientists, philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, for at stake is how science and society fit together. Recent years have seen a turn largely against the rhetoric of unity, ranging from the please of condensed matter physicists for disciplinary autonomy all the way to discussions in the humanities and social sciences that involve local history, feminism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, scientific relativism and realism, and social constructivism. Many of these varied aspects of the debate over the disunity of science are reflected in this volume, which brings together a number of scholars studying science who otherwise have had little to say to each other: feminist theorists, philosophers of science, sociologists of science. How does the context of discover shape knowledge? What are the philosophical consequences of a disunified science? Does, for eTrade Review“This is a very important work, with contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in science studies....It actually delivers on its promise to renew discussion and develop fresh ideas about the allegation that the sciences are no longer (or never were) unified by a single theoretical view of nature or a methodological foundation.” —Michael Lynch, Brunel UniversityTable of ContentsContributors Introduction: the context of disunity Part I. Boundaries: 1. The disunities of the sciences Ian Hacking 2. Styles of reasoning, conceptual history, and the emergence of psychiatry Arnold I. Davidson 3. Metaphysical disorder and scientific disunity John Dupre; 4. Computer simulations and the trading zone Peter Galison 5. The unity of science: carnap. neurath, and beyond Richard Creath 6. Talking metaphysical turkey about epistemological chicken, and the poop on pidgins Steve Fuller Part II. Contexts: 7. From relativism to contingetism Mario Biagioli 8. Contextualizing the canon Simon Schaffer 9. Science made up: constructivist sociology of scientific knowledge Arthur Fine 10. From epistemology and metaphysics to concrete connections David J. Stump 11. The care of the self and blind variation: the disunity of two leading sciences Karim Knorr Cetina 12. The constitution of archaelogical evidence: gender politics and science Alison Wym Part III. Power: 13. Otto neurath: politics and the unity of science Jordi Cat, Nancy Cartwright, and Hasok Chang 14. The naturalized history museum Timothy Lenon and Cheryl Lynn Ross 15. Beyond epistemic sovereignty Joseph Rouse 16. The dilemma of scientific subjectivity in postvital culture Evelyn Fox Keller 17. Modest witness: feminist diffractions in science studies Donna J. Haraway 18. Afterword: new directions in the philosophy of science studies David J. Stump Notes Select bibliography Index.
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press The Mental and the Physical
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Duke University Press Aircraft Stories
Book SynopsisTells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft - the TSR2. Offering numerous insights into the way we theorise the working of systems, this title explores the overlaps between singularity and multiplicity and reveals rich new meaning in such concepts as oscillation, interference, fractionality, and rhizomatic networks.Trade Review“Through this lively text, John Law guides us on a tour of the TSR2 that will be a rich resource for anyone interested in the question of how new artifacts come into being. Writers, readers, engineers, and aircraft are inseparable components of the project, which involves simultaneously achieving the singularities and recovering the multiplicities of stories and things. Crafting together a complex architecture of subject/object relations, Aircraft Stories offers a prototype for a new form of technoscience storytelling.”—Lucy Suchman, author of Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication“What is a military aircraft? John Law shows in his beautiful analysis that it is a constant oscillation between multiplicity and singularity. It (sometimes) flies, it (possibly) drops nuclear bombs, it (certainly) reproduces a very conservative social order, it interpellates and entices young men, and yet it still remains a military aircraft. John Law invents what could be a monadology in which there is no longer preestablished harmony.”—Michel Callon, CSI Ecole des mines de Paris"[Law] writes well, sometimes almost poetically, with few of the tortured sentences of much cultural theory. Many readers may disagree with his theses, but few will fail to be stimulated by this brave, challenging book." -- Donald MacKenzie * American Journal of Sociology *"Law's illustration of the singularity/multiplicity of artifacts (especially in the context of the many strands of social theory on which he draws) lends depth to any understanding of the social character of technology. His readers are invited, I think, to pull some of the more valuable jottings from his pinboard and interweave them in their own montages." -- Cyrus C. M. Mody * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Objects 3. Subjects 4. Cultures 5. Heterogeneities 6. Aesthetics 7. Decisions 8. Arborescences 9. Pinboards Notes References Index
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Duke University Press Growing Explanations
Book SynopsisAddresses a shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanationsTrade Review“Growing Explanations registers the profound shift in many domains of science—from chaos theory to functional genomics—giving epistemological priority to complex and emergent phenomena. Anyone interested in the nature of contemporary science, especially the central role of the computer, will find this a fascinating read.”—Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University“M. Norton Wise has orchestrated a volume of cutting-edge work exploring the sea change in contemporary models of explanation fueled by advances in computation, simulation, and the new sciences of complexity. The authors illustrate how, across a wide spectrum of disciplines, new strategies based on ‘growing explanations’ to understand the emergent behaviors of systems constructed from the bottom up are replacing the traditional ‘reductionist’ credo of explaining complex phenomena in terms of simple entities. An important and timely volume for anyone interested in science studies.”—Timothy Lenoir, author of Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific DisciplinesTable of ContentsIntroduction: dynamincs all the way up / M. Norton Wise 1 Part I Mathematics, physics, and engineering Elementary particles? ` 1. Mirror symmetry: persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison 23 Nonlinear dynamics and chaos 2. Chaos, disorder, and mixing: a new fin-de-siecle image of science? / Amy Dahan Dalmedico 67 3. Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of Rene Thjom: topology, morphogenesis, and structuralism / David Aubin 95 Coping with complexity in technology 4. From Boeing to Berkeley: civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins of finite element analysis / Ann Johnson 133 5. Fuzzyfying the world: social practices of showing the properties of fuzzy logic / Claude Rosental 159 Part II The organism, the self, and (artificial) life Self-Organization 6. Marrying the premodern to the postmodern: computers and organisms after World War II / Evelyn Fox Keller 181 Immunology 7. Immunology and the enigma of selfhood / Alfred I. Tauber 201 8. Immunology of AIDS: growning explanations and developing instruments / Ilana Lowy 222 Artificial Life 9. Artificial life support: some nodes in the Alife ribotype / Richard Doyle 251 10. The word for world is computer: simulating second natures in artificial life / Stefan Helmreich 275 11. Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life: on paradigms, ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology / Claus Emmeche 301 Afterword 327 Contributors 333 Index 337
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University of Pittsburgh Press What Makes a Good Experiment Reasons and Roles in Science
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University of Pittsburgh Press Science as it Could Have Been Discussing the ContingencyInevitability Problem
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University of Pittsburgh Press Exploratory Experiments
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Voice of Science
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University of Pittsburgh Press Symbols and Things
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University of Pittsburgh Press Victorian Interdisciplinarity and the Sciences
Book SynopsisThe specialization thesisthe idea that nineteenth-century science fragmented into separate forms of knowledge that led to the creation of modern disciplineshas played an integral role in the way historians have described the changing disciplinary map of nineteenth-century British science. This volume critically reevaluates this dominant narrative in the historiography. While new disciplines did emerge during the nineteenth century, the intellectual landscape was far muddier, and in many cases new forms of specialist knowledge continued to cross boundaries while integrating ideas from other areas of study. Through a history of Victorian interdisciplinarity, this volume offers a more complicated and innovative analysis of discipline formation. Harnessing the techniques of cultural and intellectual history, studies of visual culture, Victorian studies, and literary studies, contributors break out of subject-based silos, exposing the tension between the rhetorical push for specialization a
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University of Pittsburgh Press Theories On The Scrap Heap
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University of Pittsburgh Press Four Decades of Scientific Explanation
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1989, this book presents and analyzes the dramatic changes in philosophical conceptions of scientific explanation after the landmark 1948 essayStudies in the Logic of Explanation by Carl Hempel and Paul Oppenheim.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Logical Empiricism
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays reexamines the origins of logical empiricism and offers fresh insights into its relationship to contemporary philosophy of science.Trade Review“A nicely balanced collection that combines careful historical study with an eye on current debates in the philosophy of science and mind.”—Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook|“Of special interest to anyone interested in the history of 20th-century philosophy or in logical empiricism. Recommended.”—Choice|"Should not be missed by anyone interested in logical empiricism, or in the history and legacy of analytic philosophy more generally."—Erich Reck, University of California, Riverside
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University of Pittsburgh Press World Changes Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science
Book SynopsisProminent philosophers analyze the work of Thomas Kuhn, including his monumental study The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, from a broad perspective, comparing earlier logical empiricism and logical positivism with the new philosophy inspired by Kuhn in the early 1960s.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Will To Create The
Book SynopsisBetter known as a poet and dramatist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was also a learned philosopher and natural scientist. Astrida Orle Tantillo offers the first comprehensive analysis of his natural philosophy, which she contends is rooted in creativity.
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University of Pittsburgh Press World ObservedThe World Conceived The
Book SynopsisProvides an innovative analysis of the nature and interplay of observation and conceptualization. Radder shows that observation is always conceptually interpreted, and concepts affect the way observational processes are conducted in the first place.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science
Book SynopsisA comprehensive philosophical analysis of the use of scientific models in historic and contemporary contexts.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice The Science and Values Revisited
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University of Pittsburgh Press Scientific Understanding
Book SynopsisExamines the essential role of understanding in the scientific process, through three key topics: understanding and explanation, understanding and models, and understanding in scientific practice.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Foundations of Scientific Inference The
Book SynopsisAfter its publication in 1967, The Foundations of Scientific Inference taught a generation of students and researchers about the problem of induction, the interpretation of probability, and confirmation theory. Fifty years later, Wesley C. Salmon's book remains one of the clearest introductions to these fundamental problems in the philosophy of science.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition:""Salmon’s book is written in a clear and elementary style. It has many of the earmarks of a text useful for beginners and advanced students alike"". - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science""As a presentation of the primary issues concerning the foundations of scientific inference, this volume can be recommended most highly"". - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research""This is an excellent little book. One might disagree with some of its contentions; some will disagree with the whole foundational approach. But Professor Salmon has given us a book of exceptional clarity and conciseness"". - Isis""This study admirably fills the need for an elementary survey of problems in the area of probability and induction. A well-written and challenging introduction to the field"". - Review of Metaphysics""Few current writers have devoted as much worthwhile attention to the problems of induction as Wesley Salmon. It is good to have his views on the subject expressed in a single, clearly written and extremely useful volume. It can be recommended to students of the field at all levels"". - Philosophical Review
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University of Pittsburgh Press Communities of Science in NineteenthCentury Ireland Sci Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisThe nineteenth century was an important period for both the proliferation of popular science and for the demarcation of a group of professionals that we now term scientists.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Science and Eccentricity
Book SynopsisThe concept of eccentricity was central to how people in the nineteenth century understood their world. Carroll explores how discourses of eccentricity were established to make sense of individuals who did not seem to fit within an increasingly organized social and economic order.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences
Book SynopsisElwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals were compounds of smaller independent units.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland
Book SynopsisWinner of the Frank Watson Prize in Scottish History, 2011 The relationship between science and civil society is essential to our understanding of cultural change during the Victorian era. Science was frequently packaged as an appropriate form of civic culture, inculcating virtues necessary for civic progress.
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Science of History in Victorian Britain
Book SynopsisNew attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour of a professionalized, scientific methodology.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Recreating Newton
Book SynopsisHiggitt shows how debates about Newton's character stimulated historical scholarship and led to the development of a new expertise in the history of science.
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain 18701914
Book SynopsisA study of the changing nature of medical professionalism through medical catalogues.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Popular Exhibitions Science and Showmanship 18401910
Book SynopsisVictorian culture was characterized by a proliferation of shows and exhibitions. These were encouraged by the development of new sciences and technologies, together with changes in transportation, education and leisure patterns. The essays in this collection look at exhibitions and their influence in terms of location, technology and ideology.
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Age of Scientific Naturalism
Book SynopsisPhysicist John Tyndall and his contemporaries were at the forefront of developing the cosmology of scientific naturalism during the Victorian period.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Uncommon Contexts Encounters Between Science and Literature 18001914
Book SynopsisBritain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science, at the same time bridging the disciplinary gulf between the history of science and literary studies.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Regionalizing Science
Book SynopsisTaking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed people’s relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study, allowing a depth and texture of analysis denied to more general scientific overviews of the period.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture
Book SynopsisExplores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture.
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain
Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, the British Government spent money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. This book presents a narrative of the two Victorian transit programmes. It draws out their cultural significance and explores the nature of "big science" in late-Victorian Britain.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Typhoid in Uppingham
Book SynopsisAfter the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Science and Societies in Frankfurt Am Main
Book SynopsisAs it did not have a university or a centralized government, Frankfurt am Main is an ideal case study of how scientific associations - funded by private patronage for the good of the local populace - became an important centre for natural history.
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Making of British Anthropology 18131871 Sci Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisVictorian anthropology has been derided as an "armchair practice," distinct from the scientific discipline of the twentieth century. Far from being an evolutionary dead end, nineteenth-century anthropology laid the foundations for the field-based science of anthropology today.
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University of Pittsburgh Press The Making of Modern Anthrax 18751920
Book SynopsisFrom the mid-nineteenth century onwards a number of previously unknown conditions were recorded in both animals and humans. Known by a variety of names, and found in diverse locations, by the end of the century these diseases were united under the banner of "anthrax."
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Fordham University Press Derrida after the End of Writing
Book SynopsisThis book offers a new materialist interpretation of Derrida’s later work, including his engagements with religion and politics. It argues that there is a shift from a context or background motor scheme of writing to what Derrida calls the machinic, and Catherine Malabou calls plasticity.Trade Review"This book is not for you-if you think the specter of Derrida can be exorcised. Clayton Crockett has millennially updated and multi-discursively refreshed deconstruction itself. With transdisciplinary panache and a haunting intimacy, this leading philosopher of religion brings forth the political theologian and new materialist Derrida could only become postmortem." -- -Catherine Keller George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, and author of Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Derrida and the New Materialism Chapter One: Reading Derrida Reading Religion Chapter Two: Surviving Christianity Chapter Three: Political Theology Without Sovereignty Chapter Four: Interrupting Heidegger with a Ram: Derrida Reads Celan Chapter Five: Derrida, Lacan and OOO: Philosophy of Religion at the End of the World Chapter Six: Radical Theology and the Event: Caputo's Derridean Gospel Chapter Seven: Deconstructive Plasticity: Malabou's Biological Materialism Chapter Eight: Quantum Derrida: Barad's Hauntological Materialism Afterword: The Sins of the Fathers-A Love Letter
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Fordham University Press Derrida after the End of Writing Political
Book SynopsisThis book offers a new materialist interpretation of Derrida’s later work, including his engagements with religion and politics. It argues that there is a shift from a context or background motor scheme of writing to what Derrida calls the machinic, and Catherine Malabou calls plasticity.Trade Review"This book is not for you-if you think the specter of Derrida can be exorcised. Clayton Crockett has millennially updated and multi-discursively refreshed deconstruction itself. With transdisciplinary panache and a haunting intimacy, this leading philosopher of religion brings forth the political theologian and new materialist Derrida could only become postmortem." -- -Catherine Keller George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, and author of Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Derrida and the New Materialism Chapter One: Reading Derrida Reading Religion Chapter Two: Surviving Christianity Chapter Three: Political Theology Without Sovereignty Chapter Four: Interrupting Heidegger with a Ram: Derrida Reads Celan Chapter Five: Derrida, Lacan and OOO: Philosophy of Religion at the End of the World Chapter Six: Radical Theology and the Event: Caputo's Derridean Gospel Chapter Seven: Deconstructive Plasticity: Malabou's Biological Materialism Chapter Eight: Quantum Derrida: Barad's Hauntological Materialism Afterword: The Sins of the Fathers-A Love Letter
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American Maritain Association Facts are Stubborn Things Thomistic Perspectives
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