Search results for ""Author Robert P. Crease""
WW Norton & Co The Workshop and the World What Ten Thinkers Can
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority.
£19.94
The University of Chicago Press Making Physics
Book SynopsisThis text tells the stories of Brookhaven National Laboratory's scientists and their research, which has included detailed descriptions of the structure of the nucleus, early attempts at radiotherapy for inoperable tumours, and studies of strange particles.
£30.40
Springer Hermeneutics and the Natural Sciences
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£85.49
WW Norton & Co The Great Equations
Book SynopsisAny reader who aspires to be scientifically literate will find this a good starting place.-Publishers WeeklyTrade Review"More than just a celebration of the great equations…[Crease] shows how an equation not only affects science and math but also transforms the thinking of all people." -- Dick Teresi"Wry, probing, philosophically inclined." -- Charles C. Mann, author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
£12.99
WW Norton & Co World in the Balance
Book SynopsisShows that the story of metrology . . . can in the right hands make for a riveting read.The EconomistTrade Review"By any measure, this book is a delight." -- Natural History"[A] fascinating book." -- New Scientist"A colorful tale of global conquest driven by kings, revolutionaries, polyglots and privateers." -- Science News"Takes the seemingly mundane questions we unthinkingly ask dozens of times a day and reveals them to be thrillingly profound." -- Richard Panek, author of The 4% Universe
£13.29
MH - Indiana University Press The Play of Nature Experimentation as
Book SynopsisThis novel approach to philosophy of science asserts that experimentation is at the center of science and explains the experimental process through an analogy with theatrical performance.Trade Review"Crease's brilliantly exploited theatrical analogy places scientific theorizing back into the wider context of experimental inquiry." - Robert C. Scharff
£40.50
MIT Press Ltd The Leak Politics Activists and Loss of Trust at
Book SynopsisHow the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility.In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class, Nobel Prize–winning lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science and one of the world’s finest research facilities. The leak, harmless to health, came from a storage pool rather than the reactor. But its discovery triggered a media and political firestorm that resulted in the reactor’s shutdown, and even attempts to close the entire laboratory. A quarter century later, the episode reveals the dynamics of today’s controversies in which fears and the dismissal of science disrupt serious discussion and research of vital issues such as vaccines, climate change, and toxic chemicals. This story
£25.65
Institute of Physics Publishing Philosophy of Physics
Book SynopsisThis book is about the ways that philosophers inquire into science. They do so with several different approaches, which this book parses into three. One analyzes the results of inquiry, another the process of inquiry, and still another inquiring, or what it means to be an inquirer. Each approach puts a different feature of science centre-stage - its logic, practice, and being-inquiring - questions it in different vocabularies for different ends, and ends up with different kinds of conclusions. This book outlines these approaches in a non-technical way, and highlights their differences by showing how they engage specific topics and issues in physics, including method, discovery, and theory. The key audiences for this book include the wider physics community, as well as philosophy and physics students.Key Features:Author is well respected in the field and well known, in particular through his writings in Physics World
£999.99
Rlpg/Galleys Technoscience and Postphenomenology
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1.Postphenomenology’s North American Future, Robert C. Scharff 2.Beyond Originary Givenness? Postphenomenology, Digital Imaging and Evidentiary Responsibility, Shannon Vallor 3.Historical Variations and the Cellular Age, Galit Wellner 4.On Postphenomenology and the Postcolonial, Srikanth Mallavarapu 5.What is Multistability? A Theory of the Keystone Concept of Postphenomenological Research, Kyle Powys Whyte 6.Hospital Architecture and Design in Post-Phenomenological Perspective, Lars Botin 7.Post-Telescope-Postphenomenology? …and a little Locomotive History, Michael Funk 8.The Dubstep Mashup, Stacy O. Irwin 9.Postphenomenology: What’s New? What’s Next? Robert Rosenberger 10.An Introduction to Hyperology: The Age of the Chimera, Roisin Lally 11.Nursing’s Nightingale needed a lamp! Anette Forss 12.Multistable roboethics, Cathrine Hasse 13.Towards a Theory of Technological Mediation: A Program for Postphenomenological Research, Peter-Paul Verbeek 14.Don Ihde’s Relevance to the Gun Debates, Evan Selinger 15.Technology and the Environment: Lessons from Fukushima, Junichi Murata 16.How Does Technology Alter Sports: Body, Space, and Ethics, Shoji Nagataki 17.Somatology of Aurality: The Voice of the Material World, Eduardo Mendieta
£88.20
Lexington Books Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read
Book SynopsisHow should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the “postphenomenological” philosophical perspective, applying its distinctive ideas to the study of how images are experienced. These essays offer both philosophical analysis of our conception of images and empirical studies of imaging practice. The contributors analyze concrete examples from a variety of fields of science and medicine, including radiology, neuroscience, cytology, physics, remote sensing, and space science. They also include examples of imaging in everyday life, from smartphone apps to animated GIFs. Edited by Samantha J. Fried and Robert Rosenberger, this collection includes an extensive “primer” chapter introducing and expanding the postphenomenological account of imaging, as well as a set of short pieces by “critical respondents”: prominent scholars who may not self-identify as doing postphenomenology but whose adjacent work is illuminating. Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionSamantha J. Fried & Robert RosenbergerSECTION 1: Primer1. A Primer on Postphenomenology and Image ReadingRobert RosenbergerSECTION 2: Postphenomenological Thought Experiments: Multiplying Multiples2. Affect in the Age of the Image: The .gif Use CaseStacey O. Irwin3. Science Comes Late to Sonification Don Ihde4. Radiology as Skillful Coping and Enactive Hermeneutics: A Critique of Representations and Corresponding Truth Jan Kyrre Berg FriisSECTION 3: Embodied Postphenomenology: Ethnographies of the Interactive Multiple5. Image Interpretation as Object Constitution: Hermeneutic Strategies in Neuroscientific PracticeBas de Boer6. “To Be Or Not To Be”: Hermeneutic Relations Through Technology in Clinical Cytology Anette Forss7. Not Too Queer To Be Straight And Not Too Straight To Be Queer: Becoming Bisexual Through The Screen Of Digital Hook-Up App BumbleKatie WarfieldSECTION 4: Postphenomenology as Practice/Theory8. Feynman Diagrams and the Phenomenology of Paper ToolsRobert P. Crease9. Collective Visual Hermeneutics: How Posthumanist Learning Forms Perception with Technologies Cathrine Hasse10. Philosophize In It! Politicize With it!: Postphenomenology and Earth Remote Sensing as Sites of Political/Scientific InterventionSamantha J. FriedSECTION 5: Critical Respondents11. Attending to the Otherwise: Reading Illusions through Virtual RealityLisa Messeri12. Reflections on Postphenomenological CrossingsJanet Vertesi13. Representationalism and Digital ImageryWill Sutherland and David RibesAbout the Contributors
£87.30
