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  • - Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London
    av Adrian Desmond
    699,-

  • - Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England
    av Steven Shapin
    605,-

    This work employs detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate the study's claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge.

  • - The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists
    av Martin J. S. Rudwick
    699,-

  • - The Making of a Revolution
    av Mara Beller
    505,-

    This work seeks to show that science is rooted not just in conversation but in disagreement, doubt and uncertainty. Mara Beller argues that it is precisely this culture of dialogue and controversy within the scientific community that fuels creativity.

  • - The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism
    av Mario Biagioli
    465,-

  • - A Cognitive Approach
    av Ronald N. Giere
    505,-

    A consideration of whether scientific knowledge is objective and universal or socially mediated, whether scientific truths are independent of human values and beliefs.

  • av Sharon E. Kingsland
    529,-

    A history of population ecology which traces two generations of science and scientists from the opening of the 20th century through to 1970. The text chronicles the careers of key figures and the field's theoretical, empirical and institutional development.

  • av William B. Provine
    659,-

  • - The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory
    av Robert J. Richards
    405,-

  • - An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
    av Kim Sterelny
    519,-

    In this introduction to philosophy of biology, Kim Sterelny and Paul E. Griffiths present both the science and the philosophical context necessary for a critical understanding of the debates shaping biology at the end of the 20th century.

  • - An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science
    av David L. (Northwestern University Hull
    619,-

  • - Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science
    av Larry Laudan
    359,-

    Why have many members of the intellectual community embraced a radical relativism where knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular are concerned? Have Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat? Is philosophy of science, or mistaken impressions of it, responsible for the rise of relativism? In Science and Relativism, Larry offers a trenchant, wide-ranging critique of cognitive relativism and a thorough introduction to majorissues in the philosophy of knowledge.

  • - Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment
    av Rose-Mary Sargent
    715 - 1 475,-

    Featuring a figure of early modern science, this text explores Robert Boyle's philosophy of experiment, a central aspect of his life and work. Philosophical, legal, experimental and religious traditions that played a part in shaping Boyle's experimental thought and practice are examined.

  • - Essays on Realism and Empiricism
    av Paul M. Churchland
    585,-

    Ten papers by prominent philosophers of science which challenge van Fraassen's thesis from a variety of realist perspectives. Together with van Fraassen's extensive reply, the articles provide a comprehensive picture of the current debate in philosophy of science between realists and anti-realists.

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