Constructing Quarks

Author : Andrew Pickering
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0226667995

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Constructing Quarks by Andrew Pickering Pdf

Widely regarded as a classic in its field, Constructing Quarks recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather they are social beings as well as active constructors of natural phenomena who engage in both experimental and theoretical practice. "A prodigious piece of scholarship that I can heartily recommend."—Michael Riordan, New Scientist "An admirable history. . . . Detailed and so accurate."—Hugh N. Pendleton, Physics Today

Author : Daphne Patai,Wilfrido Corral
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231508698

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Theory's Empire by Daphne Patai,Wilfrido Corral Pdf

Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to current anthologies of literary theory, which have embraced an uncritical stance toward Theory and its practitioners. Written by nearly fifty prominent scholars, the essays in Theory's Empire question the ideas, catchphrases, and excesses that have let Theory congeal into a predictable orthodoxy. More than just a critique, however, this collection provides readers with effective tools to redeem the study of literature, restore reason to our intellectual life, and redefine the role and place of Theory in the academy.

Author : Kyungsik Kang,C W Kim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814569330

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Particles, Quantum Groups, High Tc, Phase Transitions And All That - Proceedings Of The First Yanbrian International Workshop On Modern Physics by Kyungsik Kang,C W Kim Pdf

These proceedings are the culmination of the First Yanbian Workshop on Modern Physics, an epoch making event in Korean history that took place in Yanbian, China during 15-18 July, 1990. The meeting was instrumental to bring the active practitioners in the frontier physic together from many parts of the world including for the first time, those from North Korea. This volume contains the most important lectures by experts in Particle Physics, Conformal Field Theory, High-Tc Superconductivity, Phase Transitions, Medium Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Author : Tim Newton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134211517

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Nature and Sociology by Tim Newton Pdf

This book engages with, and contests, the ‘new sociology of nature’. It moves beyond existing debates by presenting new social theory and working across current fields of interest, addressing the debate on new genetics and genomics, taking human biology seriously, and the issues of interdisciplinarity that are likely to arise in longer term attempts to work across the social and natural world. Nature and Sociology will be of great interest to students of a variety of disciplines including sociology and social science, human geography, social and biological anthropology, and the natural sciences.

Author : Richard C. Brown
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789812835246

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Are Science and Mathematics Socially Constructed? by Richard C. Brown Pdf

This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls ?postmodern interpretations of science? (PIS) and the closely related ?sociology of scientific knowledge? (SSK). This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn's revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a ?social construction?, having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual forces such as the race, class, gender of the scientist, laboratory politics, or the needs of the military industrial complex.Since the 1970s, PIS has become fashionable in the humanities, social sciences, and ethnic or women's studies, as well as in the new academic discipline of Science, Technology, and Society (STS). It has been attacked by numerous authors and the resulting conflicts led to the so-called Science Wars of the 1990s. While the present book is also critical of PIS, it focuses on its intellectual and political origins and tries to understand why it became influential in the 1970s. The book is both an intellectual and a political history. It examines the thoughts of Karl Popper, Karl Mannheim, Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, David Bloor, Steve Woolgar, Steve Shapin, Bruno Latour, and PIS-like doctrines in mathematics. It also describes various philosophical contributions to PIS ranging from the Greek sophists to 20th century post-structuralists and argues that the disturbed political atmosphere of the Vietnam War era was critical to the rise of PIS.

Author : Tian Yu Cao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139491600

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From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics by Tian Yu Cao Pdf

The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of debates that were ongoing between the bootstrap approach and composite modeling, and between mathematical and realistic conceptions of quarks. It explains the origins of QCD in current algebra and its development through high-energy experiments, model-building, mathematical analysis and conceptual synthesis. Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues in detail, this book will interest graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of science.

Author : Aaron Sidney Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190062804

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More Than Nothing by Aaron Sidney Wright Pdf

Across decades and disciplines, More than Nothing offers a scoping history of the vacuum as a lens into the development of modern physics.

Author : Stewart E. Kelly
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433673634

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Truth Considered and Applied by Stewart E. Kelly Pdf

For philosophy and theology students, Truth Considered and Applied examines the leading theories of truth in relation to postmodernism, history, and the Christian faith. Author Stewart E. Kelly defends Christianity in the face of postmodernist challenges that would label such religious faith as merely one version of truth among many in a pluralistic world. Likewise, in looking at Christianity as a historical faith, Kelly supports the need for Christians to develop a hermeneutic that does justice to the biblical texts and our informed understanding of the past in general; because if a genuine past cannot be recovered in some meaningful sense, the claims of Jesus being incarnate and risen from the dead are seriously jeopardized.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hadronic Matter by Anonim Pdf

Author : C.T.H Davies,S.M Playfer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429525025

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Heavy Flavour Physics Theory and Experimental Results in Heavy Quark Physics by C.T.H Davies,S.M Playfer Pdf

This book provides a thorough introduction to the phenomenology of heavy flavour physics, those working on the B-factories, LHCb, BTeV, HERA and the Tevatron. It explains how heavy quark theory could be implemented on the lattice, and discusses the status of CP-violation in the neutral kaon system.

Author : Stephen G. Brush,Ariel Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199978151

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Making 20th Century Science by Stephen G. Brush,Ariel Segal Pdf

Historically, the scientific method has been said to require proposing a theory, making a prediction of something not already known, testing the prediction, and giving up the theory (or substantially changing it) if it fails the test. A theory that leads to several successful predictions is more likely to be accepted than one that only explains what is already known but not understood. This process is widely treated as the conventional method of achieving scientific progress, and was used throughout the twentieth century as the standard route to discovery and experimentation. But does science really work this way? In Making 20th Century Science, Stephen G. Brush discusses this question, as it relates to the development of science throughout the last century. Answering this question requires both a philosophically and historically scientific approach, and Brush blends the two in order to take a close look at how scientific methodology has developed. Several cases from the history of modern physical and biological science are examined, including Mendeleev's Periodic Law, Kekule's structure for benzene, the light-quantum hypothesis, quantum mechanics, chromosome theory, and natural selection. In general it is found that theories are accepted for a combination of successful predictions and better explanations of old facts. Making 20th Century Science is a large-scale historical look at the implementation of the scientific method, and how scientific theories come to be accepted.

Author : Kent W. Staley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521827108

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The Evidence for the Top Quark by Kent W. Staley Pdf

The Evidence for the Top Quark offers both a historical and philosophical perspective on an important recent discovery in particle physics: the first evidence for the elementary particle known as the top quark. Drawing on published reports, oral histories, and internal documents from the large collaboration that performed the experiment, Kent Staley explores in detail the controversies and politics that surrounded this major scientific result.At the same time the book seeks to defend an objective theory of scientific evidence based on error probabilities.

Author : Joseph Rouse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226827971

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Social Practices as Biological Niche Construction by Joseph Rouse Pdf

A broad, synthetic philosophy of nature focused on human sociality. In this book, Joseph Rouse takes his innovative work to the next level by articulating an integrated philosophy of society as part of nature. He shows how and why we ought to unite our biological conception of human beings as animals with our sociocultural and psychological conceptions of human beings as persons and acculturated agents. Rouse’s philosophy engages with biological understandings of human bodies and their environments as well as the diverse practices and institutions through which people live and engage with one another. Familiar conceptual separations of natural, social, and mental “worlds” did not arise by happenstance, he argues, but often for principled reasons that have left those divisions deeply entrenched in contemporary intellectual life. Those reasons are eroding in light of new developments across the disciplines, but that erosion has not been sufficient to produce more adequately integrated conceptual alternatives until now. Social Practices and Biological Niche Construction shows how the characteristic plasticity, plurality, and critical contestation of human ways of life can best be understood as evolved and evolving relations among human organisms and their distinctive biological environments. It also highlights the constitutive interdependence of those ways of life with many other organisms, from microbial populations to certain plants and animals, and explores the consequences of this in-depth, noting, for instance, how the integration of the natural and social also provides new insights on central issues in social theory, such as the body, language, normativity, and power.

Author : Wiebe E. Bijker,Thomas Parke Hughes,Trevor Pinch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262300872

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The Social Construction of Technological Systems, anniversary edition by Wiebe E. Bijker,Thomas Parke Hughes,Trevor Pinch Pdf

An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society. This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry—social construction of technology, or SCOT—that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory. The approaches in this volume—collectively called SCOT (after the volume's title) have since broadened their scope, and twenty-five years after the publication of this book, it is difficult to think of a technology that has not been studied from a SCOT perspective and impossible to think of a technology that cannot be studied that way.

Author : Kiheung Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134237135

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The Social Construction of Disease by Kiheung Kim Pdf

A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called ‘prion diseases’, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Firstly tracing the twentieth-century history of disease research and biomedicine, the text then focuses on the relations between scientific practice and wider social transformations, before finally building upon the sociologically informed methodological framework. Incisive and thought-provoking, The Social Construction of Disease provides a valuable contribution to that well-established tradition of social history of science, which refers primarily to the theoretical works of the sociology of scientific knowledge.