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Author : John Hill
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Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Essays in Natural History and Philosophy written by John Hill and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David B. Malament
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780812695069
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Reading Natural Philosophy written by David B. Malament and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, 13 leading philosophers of science focus on the work of Professor Howard Stein, best known for his study of the intimate connection between philosophy and natural science. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of Howard Stein's writings.
Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521273305
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Philosophy in History written by Richard Rorty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-11-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.
Author : John Hill
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Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Essays in Natural History and Philosophy written by John Hill and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael T. Ghiselin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333633899
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Cultures and Institutions of Natural History written by Michael T. Ghiselin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cultures and Institutions of Natural History: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science This volume consists mainly of papers delivered at two meetings cosponsored by the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milan and the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. The first, on the Culture of Natural History, was held in Milan, November l4-l 6, I996. The second, on Institutions of Natural History, was held in San Francisco, October 5 - 7, 1998. They followed two earlier conferences on Biology as History (pinna and Ghiselin I996; Ghiselin and Pinna I996) likewise held in Milan and San Francisco. We intend to continue the series of meetings and have publications based on them in commemoration of the Academy's sesquicentennial in 2003. The emphasis here is mainly upon natural history museums and the kind of science that goes on in them. Although the essays were originally written to stand by themselves, when arranged in chronological order they suggest a common theme. To paraphrase Darwin, the culture and institutions of natural history have been, and are being, evolved. They have adapted to local circumstances, diversified, and sometimes even progressed. We may hope that the future holds more than just retrogression and extinction in store. Read as case studies the essays provide valuable insights into not just how, but why, the institutions have come into being and subsequently been transformed. Previous generations had quite different ideas than we do about how a collection of naturalia is supposed to function and how it should be organized. And there were con icting goals and serious disputes about policy, much as there are today. Often, though not always, the institutions turn out to be very different from what had been envisioned by their founders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : J.D. North
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400951191
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Light of Nature written by J.D. North and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays is meant as a tribute to Alistair Crombie by some of those who have studied with him. The occasion of its publication is his seven tieth birthday - 4 November 1985. Its contents are a reflection - or so it is hoped - of his own interests, and they indicate at the same time his influence on subjects he has pursued for some forty years. Born in Brisbane, Australia, Alistair Cameron Crombie took a first degree in zoology at the University of Melbourne in 1938, after which he moved to Je sus College, Cambridge. There he took a doctorate in the same subject (with a dissertation on population dynamics - foreshadowing a later interest in the history of Darwinism) in 1942. By this time he had taken up a research position with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Cambridge Zoological La boratory, a position he left in 1946, when he moved to a lectureship in the his tory and philosophy of science at University College, London. H. G. Andrewa ka and L. C. Birch, in a survey of the history of insect ecology (R. F. Smith, et al. , History of Entomology, 1973), recognise the importance of the works of Crombie (with which they couple the earlier work of Gause) as the principal sti mulus for the great interest taken in interspecific competition in the mid 194Os.
Author : MICHAEL T. GHISELIN
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ISBN 13 : 9781033672457
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (724 download)
Download or read book CULTURES AND INSTITUTIONS OF NATURAL HISTORY written by MICHAEL T. GHISELIN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre Duhem
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872203082
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science written by Pierre Duhem and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here, for the first time in English, are the philosophical essays - including the first statement of the "Duhem Thesis" - that formed the basis for Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, together with new translations of the historiographical essays presenting the equally celebrated "Continuity Thesis" by Pierre Duhem (1861-1916), a founding figure of the history and philosophy of science. Prefaced by an introduction on Duhem's intellectual development and continuing significance, here as well are important subsequent essays in which Duhem elaborated key concepts and critiqued such contemporaries as Henri Poincare and Ernst Mach. Together, these works offer a lively picture of the state of science at the turn of the century while addressing methodological issues that remain at the center of debate today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : David Cahan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226089270
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (892 download)
Download or read book From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences written by David Cahan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 19th century, much of the modern scientific enterprise took shape: scientific disciplines were formed, institutions and communities were founded and unprecedented applications to and interactions with other aspects of society and culture occurred. taught us about this exciting time and identify issues that remain unexamined or require reconsideration. They treat scientific disciplines - biology, physics, chemistry, the earth sciences, mathematics and the social sciences - in their specific intellectual and sociocultural contexts as well as the broader topics of science and medicine; science and religion; scientific institutions and communities; and science, technology and industry. From Natural Philosophy to the Sciences should be valuable for historians of science, but also of great interest to scholars of all aspects of 19th-century life and culture.
Author : Charles Fothergill
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Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the Philosophy, Study and Use of Natural History written by Charles Fothergill and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423622286
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Natural History Essays (hb) written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the tradition of literary naturalists and writers who embrace the natural world as the setting for some of our most euphoric and serious experiences. These books map the intimate connections between the human and the natural world. Literary naturalists transcend political boundaries, social concerns, and historical milieus; they speak for what Henry Beston called the "other nations" of the planet. Their message acquires more weight and urgency as wild places become increasingly scarce.
Author : Jan Patočka
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081269337X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History written by Jan Patočka and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History begins inseparably with the birth of the polis and of philosophy. Both represent a unity in strife. History is life that no longer takes itself for granted. To speak, then, of the meaning of history is not to tell a story with a projected happy or unhappy ending, as Western civilization has hoped, at least since the French Revolution. History's meaning is the meaning of the struggle in which being both reveals and conceals itself. Technological society represents both the triumph of historicity and its implosion, since here humans turn from reaching for the sacrum imperium - life lived in the perspective of truth and justice - to the mundane satisfaction of mundane needs, to life lived for the sake of catering to life.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340414
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-07-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his unmatched ability to use his knowledge of the world, including popular culture, to illuminate the realm of science. Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. Like all succeeding collections by this unique writer, it brings the art of the scientific essay to unparalleled heights.
Author : Helen Anne Curry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131651031X
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Worlds of Natural History written by Helen Anne Curry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.
Author : David L. Hull
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521644051
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Science and Selection written by David L. Hull and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One way to understand science is as a selection process. David Hull, one of the dominant figures in contemporary philosophy of science, sets out in this 2001 volume a general analysis of this selection process that applies equally to biological evolution, the reaction of the immune system to antigens, operant learning, and social and conceptual change in science. Hull aims to distinguish between those characteristics that are contingent features of selection and those that are essential. Science and Selection brings together many of David Hull's most important essays on selection (some never before published) in one accessible volume.
Author : Charles Waterton
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Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Essays on Natural History ... Third edition written by Charles Waterton and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Boyle
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241045
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Reason in Nature written by Matthew Boyle and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the dominant view of reductive naturalism, John McDowell argues that human life should be seen as transformed by reason so that human minds, while not supernatural, are sui generis. This collection assembles eleven critical essays that highlight the enduring significance and wide ramifications of McDowell’s unorthodox position.
