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Author : MILLER
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 1468405454
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Imagery in Scientific Thought Creating 20th-Century Physics written by MILLER and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-12-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur I. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262631044
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Imagery in Scientific Thought written by Arthur I. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur I. Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Imagery in Scientific Thought Creating 20th-century Physics written by Arthur I. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan J. Rocke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226723356
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Image and Reality written by Alan J. Rocke and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. In visualizing this microworld, these scientists were the first to move beyond high-level philosophical speculations regarding the unseen. In Image and Reality, Alan Rocke focuses on the community of organic chemists in Germany to provide the basis for a fuller understanding of the nature of scientific creativity. Arguing that visual mental images regularly assisted many of these scientists in thinking through old problems and new possibilities, Rocke uses a variety of sources, including private correspondence, diagrams and illustrations, scientific papers, and public statements, to investigate their ability to not only imagine the invisibly tiny atoms and molecules upon which they operated daily, but to build detailed and empirically based pictures of how all of the atoms in complicated molecules were interconnected. These portrayals of “chemical structures,” both as mental images and as paper tools, gradually became an accepted part of science during these years and are now regarded as one of the central defining features of chemistry. In telling this fascinating story in a manner accessible to the lay reader, Rocke also suggests that imagistic thinking is often at the heart of creative thinking in all fields. Image and Reality is the first book in the Synthesis series, a series in the history of chemistry, broadly construed, edited by Angela N. H. Creager, John E. Lesch, Stuart W. Leslie, Lawrence M. Principe, Alan Rocke, E.C. Spary, and Audra J. Wolfe, in partnership with the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Author : Sebastian Normandin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400724454
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010 written by Sebastian Normandin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge to the dominance of mechanism over the last 200 years, and partly revived with organicism in early theoretical biology. The contributions in this volume portray the history of vitalism from the end of the Enlightenment to the modern day, suggesting some reassessment of what it means both historically and conceptually. As such it includes a wide range of material, employing both historical and philosophical methodologies, and it is divided fairly evenly between 19th and 20th century historical treatments and more contemporary analysis. This volume presents a significant contribution to the current literature in the history and philosophy of science and the history of medicine.
Author : Theodore L. Brown
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028106
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Making Truth written by Theodore L. Brown and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new perspective on how scientists reason about the world, design and interpret experiments and communicate with one another and with the larger society outside science.
Author : Brian J. Ford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Images of Science written by Brian J. Ford and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spectacularly illustrated book chronicles the exciting progress of scientific investigation through the ages as it has been mirrored in the art used to document its ideas and breakthroughs. From the cave paintings of prehistory through the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Assyria, and Greece to Renaissance drawings and modern microscopy, these images reveal the hidden influences and cultural pressures of their times. Separate chapters focus on the animal world, herbs and the birth of botany, physics and the science of non-living matter, mankind in the world; the world in space; and other seminal topics. The illustrations have been chosen from among the best preserved in the world, some never before reproduced. All help to show how scientific illustration first arose; how it mirrored in many ways the value systems of the science of its time; how images were borrowed, transformed, and occasionally came to predict future discoveries. 210 illustrations.
Author : MILLER
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 9781468405460
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Imagery in Scientific Thought Creating 20th-Century Physics written by MILLER and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Holton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674877481
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought written by Gerald Holton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988-05-25 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Henry
Publisher : Red Globe Press
ISBN 13 : 0230019439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Scientific Thought written by John Henry and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A highly readable historical survey of the major developments in scientific thought and the impact of science on Western culture, this book takes the reader from ancient times through to the twentieth century. Organized chronologically, the book explores the history of studies of the natural world, and man's role within that world, in a single volume"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Joseph Rouse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022629370X
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Articulating the World written by Joseph Rouse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A longstanding paradox within naturalism, however, has been the status of scientific knowledge itself, which seems, at first glance, to be something that transcends and is therefore impossible to conceptualize within scientific naturalism itself. In Articulating the World, Joseph Rouse argues that the most pressing challenge for advocates of naturalism today is precisely this: to understand how to make sense of a scientific conception of nature as itself part of nature, scientifically understood. Drawing upon recent developments in evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science, Rouse defends naturalism in response to this challenge by revising both how we understand our scientific conception of the world and how we situate ourselves within it.
Author : Nancy J Nersessian
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262293455
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Creating Scientific Concepts written by Nancy J Nersessian and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account that analyzes the dynamic reasoning processes implicated in a fundamental problem of creativity in science: how does genuine novelty emerge from existing representations? How do novel scientific concepts arise? In Creating Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer this central but virtually unasked question in the problem of conceptual change. She argues that the popular image of novel concepts and profound insight bursting forth in a blinding flash of inspiration is mistaken. Instead, novel concepts are shown to arise out of the interplay of three factors: an attempt to solve specific problems; the use of conceptual, analytical, and material resources provided by the cognitive-social-cultural context of the problem; and dynamic processes of reasoning that extend ordinary cognition. Focusing on the third factor, Nersessian draws on cognitive science research and historical accounts of scientific practices to show how scientific and ordinary cognition lie on a continuum, and how problem-solving practices in one illuminate practices in the other. Her investigations of scientific practices show conceptual change as deriving from the use of analogies, imagistic representations, and thought experiments, integrated with experimental investigations and mathematical analyses. She presents a view of constructed models as hybrid objects, serving as intermediaries between targets and analogical sources in bootstrapping processes. Extending these results, she argues that these complex cognitive operations and structures are not mere aids to discovery, but that together they constitute a powerful form of reasoning—model-based reasoning—that generates novelty. This new approach to mental modeling and analogy, together with Nersessian's cognitive-historical approach, make Creating Scientific Concepts equally valuable to cognitive science and philosophy of science.
Author : International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111558533
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Marx and Contemporary Scientific Thought written by International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Marx and Contemporary Scientific Thought".
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : WECHSLER
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780817633790
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (337 download)
Download or read book On Aesthetics in Science written by WECHSLER and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. B. Nisbet
Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 9781905981199
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Herder and Scientific Thought written by H. B. Nisbet and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1970 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortened version of Herder and the Philosophy and History of Science.
Author : Maynard Solomon
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814316214
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Marxism and Art written by Maynard Solomon and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marxism and Art is a collection of basic readings in Marxist criticism and aesthetics. Marxism and Art is a book of basic readings in Marxist criticism and aesthetics. Maynard Solomon, through his selections and critical introductions, shows connections between the arts and society, between imagination nd history, and between art and revolution. He selects from thirty-six authors to reveal the range of opinion from dogma to heresy, beginning with excerpts from the works of Marx and Engels that are pertinent to an understanding of Marxist philosophy. The book traverses a wide range of subjects from the origins of art to the nature of creativity, the aesthetic experience, the dialectics of consciousness, the psychology of art, and the evolution of art forms. The sources of art in ritual, in the labor process, in the play drive, and in social conflict are explored.
