Styles Of Scientific Thought

Author : Jonathan Harwood
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0226318818

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Styles of Scientific Thought by Jonathan Harwood Pdf

In this detailed historical and sociological study of the development of scientific ideas, Jonathan Harwood argues that there is no such thing as a unitary scientific method driven by an internal logic. Rather, there are national styles of science that are defined by different values, norms, assumptions, research traditions, and funding patterns. The first book-length treatment of genetics in Germany, Styles of Scientific Thought demonstrates the influence of culture on science by comparing the American with the German scientific traditions. Harwood examines the structure of academic and research institutions, the educational backgrounds of geneticists, and cultural traditions, among many factors, to explain why the American approach was much more narrowly focussed than the German. This tremendously rich book fills a gap between histories of the physical sciences in the Weimar Republic and other works on the humanities and the arts during the intellectually innovative 1920s, and it will interest European historians, as well as sociologists and philosophers of science.

Author : MILLER
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468405453

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Imagery in Scientific Thought Creating 20th-Century Physics by MILLER Pdf

Author : Michel Serres
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054017333

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History of Scientific Thought by Michel Serres Pdf

A series of meditative or considered essays, examining nodal points in the long history of science from the first emergence of experts writing on clay in Babylonia.

Author : K. Gavroglu,Y. Christianidis,Efthymios Nicolaides
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401735964

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Trends in the Historiography of Science by K. Gavroglu,Y. Christianidis,Efthymios Nicolaides Pdf

The articles in this volume have been first presented during an international Conference organised by the Greek Society for the History of Science and Technology in June 1990 at Corfu. The Society was founded in 1989 and planned to hold a series of meetings to impress upon an audience comprised mainly by Greek students and scholars, the point that history of science is an autonomous discipline with its own plurality of approaches developed over the years as a result of long discussions and disputes within the community of historians of science. The Conference took place at a time when more and more people came to realise that the future of the Greek Universities and Research Centres depends not only on the progress of the institutional reforms, but also very crucially on the establishment of new and modern subject areas. Though there have been significant steps towards such a direction in the physical sciences, mathematics and engineering, the situation in the so-called humanities has been, at best, confusing. Political expediencies of the post war years and ideological commitments to a glorious, yet very distant past, paralysed the development of the humanities and constrained them within a framework which could not allow much more than a philological approach.

Author : H. B. Nisbet
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1905981198

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Herder and Scientific Thought by H. B. Nisbet Pdf

Shortened version of Herder and the Philosophy and History of Science.

Author : MitchellB. Frank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351565721

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German Art History and Scientific Thought by MitchellB. Frank Pdf

A fresh contribution to the ongoing debate between Kunstwissenschaft (scientific study of art) and Kunstgeschichte (art history), this essay collection explores how German-speaking art historians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century self-consciously generated a field of study. Prominent North American and European scholars provide new insights into how a mixing of diverse methodologies took place, in order to gain a more subtle and comprehensive understanding of how art history became institutionalized and legitimized in Germany. One common assumption about early art-historical writing in Germany is that it depended upon a simplistic and narrowly-defined formalism. This book helps to correct this stereotype by demonstrating the complexity of discussion surrounding formalist concerns, and by examining how German-speaking art historians borrowed, incorporated, stole, and made analogies with concepts from the sciences in formulating their methods. In focusing on the work of some of the well-known 'fathers' of the discipline - such as Alois Riegl and Heinrich W?lfflin - as well as on lesser-known figures, the essays in this volume provide illuminating, and sometimes surprising, treatments of art history's prior and understudied interactions with a wide range of scientific orientations, from psychology, sociology, and physiognomics to evolutionism and comparative anatomy.

Author : Gerald Holton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674264557

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Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought by Gerald Holton Pdf

The highly acclaimed first edition of this major work convincingly established Gerald Holton’s analysis of the ways scientific ideas evolve. His concept of “themata,” induced from case studies with special attention to the work of Einstein, has become one of the chief tools for understanding scientific progress. It is now one of the main approaches in the study of the initiation and acceptance of individual scientific insights. Three principal consequences of this perspective extend beyond the study of the history of science itself. It provides philosophers of science with the kind of raw material on which some of the best work in their field is based. It helps intellectual historians to redefine the place of modern science in contemporary culture by identifying influences on the scientific imagination. And it prompts educators to reexamine the conventional concepts of education in science. In this new edition, Holton has masterfully reshaped the contents and widened the coverage. Significant new material has been added, including a penetrating account of the advent of quantum physics in the United States, and a broad consideration of the integrity of science, as exemplified in the work of Niels Bohr. In addition, a revised introduction and a new postscript provide an updated perspective on the role of themata. The result of this thoroughgoing revision is an indispensable volume for scholars and students of scientific thought and intellectual history.

Author : Robert M. Martin
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770482296

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Scientific Thinking by Robert M. Martin Pdf

Scientific Thinking is a practical guide to inductive reasoning—the sort of reasoning that is commonly used in scientific activity, whether such activity is performed by a scientist, a reporter, a political pollster, or any one of us in day-to-day life. The book provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as confirmation, sampling, correlations, causality, hypotheses, and experimental methods. Martin’s writing confounds those who would think that such topics must be dry-as-dust, presenting ideas in a lively and engaging tone and incorporating amusing examples throughout. This book underlines the importance of acquiring good habits of scientific thinking, and helps to instill those habits in the reader. Stimulating questions and exercises are included in each chapter.

Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Historia de la fisica
ISBN : 0226458032

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn Pdf

Author : David Lindsay
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486311484

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Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words by David Lindsay Pdf

Telling people about research is just as important as doing it. But many competent researchers are wary of scientific writing, despite its importance for sharpening scientific thinking, advancing their career, obtaining funding for their work and growing the prestige of their institution. This second edition of David Lindsay’s popular book Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words presents a way of thinking about writing that builds on the way good scientists think about research. The simple principles in this book will help you to clarify the objectives of your work and present your results with impact. Fully updated throughout, with practical examples of good and bad writing, an expanded chapter on writing for non-scientists and a new chapter on writing grant applications, this book makes communicating research easier and encourages researchers to write confidently. It is an ideal reference for researchers preparing journal articles, posters, conference presentations, reviews and popular articles; for students preparing theses; and for researchers whose first language is not English.

Author : John L. Heilbron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0195112296

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The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science by John L. Heilbron Pdf

Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries. Focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the early twenty-first century, the articles cover all disciplines (Biology, Alchemy, Behaviorism), historical periods (the Scientific Revolution, World War II, the Cold War), concepts (Hypothesis, Space and Time, Ether), and methodologies and philosophies (Observation and Experiment, Darwinism). Coverage is international, tracing the spread of science from its traditional centers and explaining how the prevailing knowledge of non-Western societies has modified or contributed to the dominant global science as it is currently understood. Revealing the interplay between science and the wider culture, the Companion includes entries on topics such as minority groups, art, religion, and science's practical applications. One hundred biographies of the most iconic historic figures, chosen for their contributions to science and the interest of their lives, are also included. Above all The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science is a companion to world history: modern in coverage, generous in breadth, and cosmopolitan in scope. The volume's utility is enhanced by a thematic outline of the entire contents, a thorough system of cross-referencing, and a detailed index that enables the reader to follow a specific line of inquiry along various threads from multiple starting points. Each essay has numerous suggestions for further reading, all of which favor literature that is accessible to the general reader, and a bibliographical essay provides a general overview of the scholarship in the field. Lastly, as a contribution to the visual appeal of the Companion, over 100 black-and-white illustrations and an eight-page color section capture the eye and spark the imagination.

Author : A. C. Crombie
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826431622

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Science, Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought by A. C. Crombie Pdf

The author sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and the diversification of both vision and argument by scientific experience and by interaction with the wider contexts of intellectual culture, constitute the long history of European scientific thought. Underlying that development have been specific commitments to conceptions of nature and of science and its intellectual and moral assumptions, accompanied by a recurrent critique; their diversification has generated a series of different styles of scientific thinking and of making theoretical and practical decisions which the work describes.

Author : P B Medawar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135028251

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Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought by P B Medawar Pdf

Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with Whewell, Pierce and Popper can give the scientist a useful insight into the way he thinks.

Author : Ageliki Nicolopoulou,Amanda C. Brandone,Stella Vosniadou,Christopher Osterhaus
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889666423

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The Emergence and Development of Scientific Thinking during the Early Years: Basic Processes and Supportive Contexts by Ageliki Nicolopoulou,Amanda C. Brandone,Stella Vosniadou,Christopher Osterhaus Pdf

Author : Kevin White
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473994492

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An Introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness by Kevin White Pdf

"An accessible and highly readable introduction to the Sociology of Health and Illness through the inclusion of key theorists, concepts, and theories, with reference to contemporary health concerns and recent relevant research." - Kylie Baldwin, De Montfort University "Guides us through the many reasons for the centrality of health, showing clearly that health and illness are the products not just of our biology but of the society into which we are born...an authoritative analysis of the social nature of health." - Ray Fitzpatrick, University of Oxford This bestselling text introduces students to the core principles of the sociology of health, demonstrating the relationship between social structures and the production and distribution of health and disease in modern society. Written with a truly sociological and critical perspective, the book tackles themes such as class, gender and ethnicity, and engages with a range of theories and theorists, including Foucault, Fleck, Parsons, Weber, and Kuhn. The third edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest cutting-edge thinking in the area, with new empirical examples, updated references, and new sections on ′Thought Styles after Fleck’, and ‘Transformations of the Medical Profession.′ It also uses helpful learning features including chapter overviews, case studies, summaries and further reading suggestions, to provide stimulating and thought-provoking exercises for students in health, nursing and sociology schools.