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Author : Peter Brian Medawar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:10003605
Author : Peter Brian Medawar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:1016363319
Author : P B Medawar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032116854
First published in 1967, The Art of the Soluble presents collection of essays giving the views of the author on creativity and originality in science and on the logical connections between creative and critical thought. It is also a pioneering study of the ethology of the scientists - of the anatomy of scientific behaviour. Is it true that scientists are detached or dispassionate observers of Nature? What underlies the scientist's deep concern over the matters of priority? How did a class distinction grow up between pure and applied science? By what criteria do scientists value their own and their colleagues work? Some of the answers grow out of author's four critical studies of Teilhard de Chardin, Arthur Koestler, D'Arcy Thompson and Herbert Spencer and the book as whole is knit together by a major essay Hypothesis and Imagination, on the nature of scientific reasoning. P. B. Medawar, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960, did not see science as a book-keeping of Nature but, on the contrary, as the greatest of human adventures. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy of Science, natural science, and philosophy in general
Author : P. B. Medawar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 191144090X
Author : Peter Brian Medawar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1014536978
Author : P.B. Medawar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000466508
First published in 1967, The Art of the Soluble presents collection of essays giving the views of the author on creativity and originality in science and on the logical connections between creative and critical thought. It is also a pioneering study of the ethology of the scientists – of the anatomy of scientific behaviour. Is it true that scientists are detached or dispassionate observers of Nature? What underlies the scientist’s deep concern over the matters of priority? How did a class distinction grow up between pure and applied science? By what criteria do scientists value their own and their colleagues work? Some of the answers grow out of author’s four critical studies of Teilhard de Chardin, Arthur Koestler, D’Arcy Thompson and Herbert Spencer and the book as whole is knit together by a major essay Hypothesis and Imagination, on the nature of scientific reasoning. P. B. Medawar, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960, did not see science as a book-keeping of Nature but, on the contrary, as the greatest of human adventures. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy of Science, natural science, and philosophy in general
Author : Peter B. Medawar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641396439
Author : I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521273803
This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. It shows that Newton developed a special kind of relation between abstract mathematical constructs and the physical systems that we observe in the world around us by means of experiment and critical observation. The heart of the radical Newtonian style is the construction on the mind of a mathematical system that has some features in common with the physical world; this system was then modified when the deductions and conclusions drawn from it are tested against the physical universe. Using this system Newton was able to make his revolutionary innovations in celestial mechanics and, ultimately, create a new physics of central forces and the law of universal gravitation. Building on his analysis of Newton's methodology, Professor Cohen explores the fine structure of revolutionary change and scientific creativity in general. This is done by developing the concept of scientific change as a series of transformations of existing ideas. It is shown that such transformation is characteristic of many aspects of the sciences and that the concept of scientific change by transformation suggests a new way of examining the very nature of scientific creativity.
Author : Norman Blaikie,Jan Priest
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509515400
This unique book explains the central role that research paradigms play in the design and conduct of social research. The authors argue that social research should not just describe or confirm a social problem but should seek to find an explanation for it – and to do so requires research with 'eyes philosophically wide open'. Important philosophical and practice elements of three widely recognized paradigms – Neo-Positive, Interpretive and Critical Realist – are carefully elaborated and their use in action illustrated with detailed examples. The authors show that the philosophical assumptions of a chosen paradigm must match those embedded in a characterization of a research problem and its context. This paradigm orientation is shown to be fundamental to appropriately framing a problem, formulating research questions, deciding on a logic of inquiry and selecting and using methods to investigate it. Ultimately, an appropriate paradigm orientation to social research provides a dispassionate, rigorous and effective basis for the production of new social scientific knowledge. Following on from Blaikie's Approaches to Social Enquiry and Designing Social Research, this innovative book will be invaluable to upper-level and research students, their lecturers and supervisors, and researchers across the social sciences.
Author : Norman Blaikie
Publisher : Polity
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780745634494
Since its initial publication, this highly respected text has provided students with a critical review of the major research paradigms in the social sciences and the logics or strategies of enquiry associated with them. This second edition has been revised and updated.
Author : I. G. Simmons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134862221
Human society has constructed many varied notions of the environment. Scientific information about the environment is often seen as the only worthwhile knowledge. This ignores the complexities created by interaction between people and the environment. Idealist thinking argues that everything we know is based on a construct of our minds and that all is possible. Can both be correct and true? Interpreting Nature explores the position of humanity in the environment from the principle that the models we construct are imperfect and can only be provisional. Having examined the way in which the natural sciences have interrogated nature, the types of data produced and what they mean to us, this looks at the environment within philosophy and ethics, the social sciences and the arts, and analyses their role in the formation of environmental cognition.
Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226731001
"Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."—David R. Oldroyd, Science "After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad knowledge might dismiss [this book] as being too much about too little. They would be making one of the biggest mistakes in their intellectual lives. . . . [It] could become one of our century's key documents in understanding science and its history."—Stephen Jay Gould, New York Review of Books "Surely one of the most important studies in the history of science of recent years, and arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."—David R. Oldroyd, Science
Author : Jerry Bergman
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780890516058
Unveils the man behind one of the greatest deceptions in history! Extensively documented and powerfully compelling, these letters and records reveal a disturbing and unpleasant course in trying to prove his pre-existing conclusions. Look beyond the public facade to the deeply troubling man within.
Author : Mark Blaug
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107717268
This book is an examination of the nature of economic explanation. The opening chapters introduce current thinking in the philosophy of science and review the literature on methodology. Professor Blaug then turns to the troublesome question of the logical status of welfare economics, giving the reader an understanding of the outstanding issues in the methodology of economics. This is followed by a series of case studies of leading economic controversies, which shows how controversies in economics may be illuminated by paying attention to questions of methodology. A final chapter draws the strands together and gives the author's view of what is wrong with modern economics. This book is a revised and updated edition of a classic work on the methodology of economics, in which Professor Blaug develops his discussion of the latest developments in macroeconomics, general equilibrium theory and international trade theory. A new section on the rationality postulate is also added.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Medicine
ISBN : LOC:00159706497