Controversies Within The Scientific Revolution

Author : Marcelo Dascal,Victor D. Boantza
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789027282545

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Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution by Marcelo Dascal,Victor D. Boantza Pdf

From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and reputation remained unquestioned for long. The essays collected in this book examine the rich texture of debates that comprised the Scientific Revolution from which the modern conception of science emerged. Were controversies marginal episodes, restricted to certain fields, or were they the rule in the majority of scientific domains? To what extent did scientific controversies share a typical pattern, which distinguished them from debates in other fields? Answers to these historical and philosophical questions are sought through a close attention to specific controversies within and across the changing scientific disciplines as well as across the borders of the natural and the human sciences, philosophy, theology, and technology.

Author : David Marshall Miller,Dana Jalobeanu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108420303

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The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution by David Marshall Miller,Dana Jalobeanu Pdf

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

Author : Rom Harré
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Progress
ISBN : UCAL:B3613962

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Problems of Scientific Revolution by Rom Harré Pdf

Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226398488

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The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin Pdf

This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirkus Reviews). In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a “revolution” ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. In this analysis, early modern science is shown not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin shows that every principle identified as the modernizing essence of science—whether it’s experimentalism, mathematical methodology, or a mechanical conception of nature—was in fact contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Shapin argues that this contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements. This updated edition includes a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship. “An excellent book.” —Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review

Author : Marcelo Dascal,Victor D. Boantza
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789027218957

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Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution by Marcelo Dascal,Victor D. Boantza Pdf

From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and reputation remained unquestioned for long. The essays collected in this book examine the rich texture of debates that comprised the Scientific Revolution from which the modern conception of science emerged. Were controversies marginal episodes, restricted to certain fields, or were they the rule in the majority of scientific domains? To what extent did scientific controversies share a typical pattern, which distinguished them from debates in other fields? Answers to these historical and philosophical questions are sought through a close attention to specific controversies within and across the changing scientific disciplines as well as across the borders of the natural and the human sciences, philosophy, theology, and technology.

Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:1303903719

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Pdf

Author : C. P. Snow,Charles Percy Snow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107606142

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The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow,Charles Percy Snow Pdf

The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.

Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317395874

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Autonomous Nature by Carolyn Merchant Pdf

Autonomous Nature investigates the history of nature as an active, often unruly force in tension with nature as a rational, logical order from ancient times to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Along with subsequent advances in mechanics, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, and electromagnetism, nature came to be perceived as an orderly, rational, physical world that could be engineered, controlled, and managed. Autonomous Nature focuses on the history of unpredictability, why it was a problem for the ancient world through the Scientific Revolution, and why it is a problem for today. The work is set in the context of vignettes about unpredictable events such as the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the Bubonic Plague, the Lisbon Earthquake, and efforts to understand and predict the weather and natural disasters. This book is an ideal text for courses on the environment, environmental history, history of science, or the philosophy of science.

Author : David Harker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107069619

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Creating Scientific Controversies by David Harker Pdf

This is the first book-length introductory study of the concept of a created scientific controversy, providing a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis for students of philosophy of science, environmental and health sciences, and social and natural sciences.

Author : H. Floris Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226112800

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The Scientific Revolution by H. Floris Cohen Pdf

In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the nineteenth century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed forever the way we understand the natural world and our place in it. Cohen's discussions range from scholarly interpretations of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, to the question of why the Scientific Revolution took place in seventeenth-century Western Europe, rather than in ancient Greece, China, or the Islamic world. Cohen contends that the emergence of early modern science was essential to the rise of the modern world, in the way it fostered advances in technology. A valuable entrée to the literature on the Scientific Revolution, this book assesses both a controversial body of scholarship, and contributes to understanding how modern science came into the world.

Author : Marshall Clagett
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Science
ISBN : 0299018741

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Critical Problems in the History of Science by Marshall Clagett Pdf

Author : James W. McAllister
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501728648

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Beauty and Revolution in Science by James W. McAllister Pdf

Explaining why he embraced the theory of relativity, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist P. A. M. Dirac stated, "It is the essential beauty of the theory which I feel is the real reason for believing in it." How reasonable and rational can science be when its practitioners speak of "revolutions" in their thinking and extol certain theories for their "beauty"? James W. McAllister addresses this question with the first systematic study of the aesthetic evaluations that scientists pass on their theories.Using a wealth of other examples, McAllister explains how scientists' aesthetic preferences are influenced by the empirical track record of theories, describes the origin and development of aesthetic styles of theorizing, and reconsiders whether simplicity is an empirical or an aesthetic virtue of theories. McAllister then advances an innovative model of scientific revolutions, in opposition to that of Thomas S. Kuhn.Three detailed studies demonstrate the interconnection of empirical performance, beauty, and revolution. One examines the impact of new construction materials on the history of architecture. Another reexamines the transition from the Ptolemaic system to Kepler's theory in planetary astronomy, and the third documents the rise of relativity and quantum theory in the twentieth century.

Author : Charles William Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Science
ISBN : CHI:11712111

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International Encyclopedia of Unified Science by Charles William Morris Pdf

Author : Peter Rowlands
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786344045

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Newton - Innovation And Controversy by Peter Rowlands Pdf

Unique among celebrated scientists, Newton was equally gifted at theoretical physics, experimental physics and pure mathematics. He was also exceptional in another, less well-recognised sense. No one has come near to equalling his extraordinary analytical power.Analytically-derived truths are controversial because such truths can only be established by extended experimental verification or by their success in generating further truths by systematic development. While Newton's optics was ultimately established by the first method and his theory of gravity by the second, much of his work on other subjects, though equally powerful and innovative, has never been totally established as part of this analytical context. This book discusses why the innovations matter today and why they were, and sometimes still are, controversial.Published as the third of a three-part set for Newtonian scholars, historians of science, philosophers of science and others interested in Newtonian physics.All Titles: 1.Newton and Modern Physics 2.Newton and the Great World System 3.Newton — Innovation and Controversy

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521396999

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The Scientific Revolution in National Context by Roy Porter Pdf

The 'scientific revolution' of the sixteenth and seventeenth century continues to command attention in historical debate. Controversy still rages about the extent to which it was essentially a 'revolution of the mind', or how far it must also be explained by wider considerations. In this volume, leading scholars of early modern science argue the importance of specifically national contexts for understanding the transformation in natural philosophy between Copernicus and Newton. Distinct political, religious, cultural and linguistic formations shaped scientific interests and concerns differently in each European state and explain different levels of scientific intensity. Questions of institutional development and of the transmission of scientific ideas are also addressed. The emphasis upon national determinants makes this volume an interesting contribution to the study of the Scientific Revolution.