Category: History Philosophy

By Benjamin Crowell

It is a textual content for an introductory collage physics classification, protecting targeted relativity and easy quantum physics. The remedy is algebra-based, with functions of calculus mentioned in non-compulsory sections. for additional info approximately this ebook, see its online page at lightandmatter.com.
This publication is a part of the sunshine and subject sequence of introductory
physics textbooks.

By Léna Soler, Sjoerd Zwart, Michael Lynch, Vincent Israel-Jost

ISBN-10: 0415722950

ISBN-13: 9780415722957

In the Nineteen Eighties, philosophical, ancient and social reviews of technology underwent a transformation which later developed right into a flip to practice. Analysts of technology have been requested to be aware of clinical practices in meticulous aspect and alongside a number of dimensions, together with the fabric, social and mental. Following this flip, the curiosity in medical practices persisted to extend and had an indelible impression within the a number of fields of technology reports. doubtless, the perform flip replaced our conceptions and methods of technological know-how, yet what did it quite train us? What does it suggest to check medical practices? What are the overall classes, implications, and new challenges?

This quantity explores questions on the perform flip utilizing either case reports and theoretical research. The case stories research empirical and mathematical sciences, together with the engineering sciences. the quantity promotes interactions among stated specialists from diverse, frequently considered conflicting, orientations. It provides contributions along side serious commentaries that positioned the theses and assumptions of the previous in point of view. total, the publication bargains a distinct and numerous variety of views at the meanings, tools, classes, and demanding situations linked to the perform turn.

By John Losee

ISBN-10: 0203239776

ISBN-13: 9780203239773

ISBN-10: 0203345193

ISBN-13: 9780203345191

ISBN-10: 0415320666

ISBN-13: 9780415320665

ISBN-10: 0415320674

ISBN-13: 9780415320672

Losee covers the interpretations of medical growth from William Whewell via Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos to Thomas Kuhn and past, to the newest modern debates.

By Lars-Göran Johansson

ISBN-10: 3319265490

ISBN-13: 9783319265490

This textbook bargains an advent to the philosophy of technological know-how. It is helping undergraduate scholars from the typical, the human and social sciences to achieve an knowing of what technological know-how is, the way it has built, what its center characteristics are, tips on how to distinguish among technology and pseudo-science and to find what a systematic perspective is. It argues opposed to the typical assumption that there's primary distinction among traditional and human technology, with traditional technology caring with trying out hypotheses and researching traditional legislation, and the purpose of human and a few social sciences being to appreciate the meanings of person and social team activities. as an alternative examines the similarities among the sciences and indicates how the trying out of hypotheses and doing interpretation/hermeneutics are comparable actions. The e-book makes transparent that classes from average scientists are suitable to scholars and students in the social and human sciences, and vice versa. It teaches its readers easy methods to successfully demarcate among technology and pseudo-science and units standards for actual clinical thinking.

Divided into 3 components, the ebook first examines the query what's technological know-how? It describes the evolution of technological know-how, defines wisdom, and explains using and want for hypotheses and speculation trying out. the second one 1/2 half I bargains with medical info and remark, qualitative facts and strategies, and ends with a dialogue of theories at the improvement

of technology. half II deals philosophical reflections on 4 of crucial con

cepts in technological know-how: explanations, motives, legislation and types. half III offers discussions on philosophy of brain, the relation among brain and physique, value-free and value-related technology, and reflections on genuine traits in science.

By Alec L. Panchen

ISBN-10: 0521305829

ISBN-13: 9780521305822

Traditionally, naturalists who suggest theories of evolution, together with Darwin and Wallace, have performed so which will clarify the obvious courting of ordinary category. This e-book starts through exploring the intimate ancient courting among styles of type and styles of phylogeny. it's a round argument, although, to exploit the knowledge for class and the idea that of homology as facts for evolution, while evolution is the speculation explaining the phenomenon of normal category. Alec Panchen provides different facts for evolution within the kind of a historically-based yet conscientiously logical argument. this can be then by way of a heritage of tools of category and phylogeny reconstruction together with present mathematical and molecular strategies. the writer makes the $64000 declare that if the hierarchical development of category is a true phenomenon, then biology is exclusive as a technology in making taxonomic statements. This end is reached in terms of old experiences of theories of evolutionary mechanism and the philosophy of technological know-how as utilized to biology.

By Roger H. Stuewer

ISBN-10: 081665879X

ISBN-13: 9780816658794

First released in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa corporation.

By Raphael Falk

ISBN-10: 0521884187

ISBN-13: 9780521884181

It is a very fascinating ebook, no longer precisely a textual content on genetics and heredity, yet summarizing the physique of information in these fields. It offers an exceptional excessive point view of genetics and indicates how person experiments or discoveries have produced the present technology. it's also, partly, a historical past of the topic referring to the best way those discoveries have equipped one upon one other. As he discusses the advancements within the technological know-how he additionally displays that as we delve deeper into the certainty of molecules we get extra clear of the truth that we're fairly facing dwelling, respiring, considering organisms that in some way transcend those naked molecules. He appears for a better figuring out among the molecular and the completed residing method. The booklet is written by way of a genetic scientist who spend the 1st a part of his occupation operating within the box and later moved extra to the learn of the historical past and philosophy of the sphere.

By Sue V. Rosser

ISBN-10: 0814771521

ISBN-13: 9780814771525

ISBN-10: 0814776450

ISBN-13: 9780814776452

Why are there so few ladies in technological know-how? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser makes use of the studies of profitable ladies scientists and engineers to reply to the query of why elite associations have so few girls scientists and engineers tenured on their schools. ladies are hugely certified, encouraged scholars, and but they've got vastly larger charges of attrition, and they're shying clear of the fields with the maximum call for for employees and the most important monetary payoffs, akin to engineering, machine sciences, and the actual sciences. Rosser indicates that those carrying on with developments aren't only... Read more...

By Thompson

ISBN-10: 0852745133

ISBN-13: 9780852745137

A suite of round one hundred fifty examination-type questions for first measure scholars, whole with strategies. difficulties of various levels of hassle try scholars' skill to use their wisdom and figuring out to occasions no longer formerly encountered in direction paintings or textbooks. As a educating and studying reduction, this publication will end up to be a useful acquisition for academics and scholars in physics and the actual sciences, and will consequently now not be ignored.

By Joseph Warren Dauben

ISBN-10: 0674348710

ISBN-13: 9780674348714

One of many maximum revolutions in arithmetic happened while Georg Cantor (1845-1918) promulgated his idea of transfinite units. This revolution is the topic of Joseph Dauben's very important studythe such a lot thorough but writtenof the thinker and mathematician who used to be known as a "corrupter of adlescent" for an innovation that's now an important component to straight forward university curricula.Set concept has been broadly followed in arithmetic and philosophy, however the controversy surrounding it on the flip of the century continues to be of serious curiosity. Cantor's personal religion in his idea used to be in part theological. His non secular ideals led him to count on paradoxes in any notion of the limitless, and he continually retained his trust within the utter veracity of transfinite set thought. Later in his lifestyles, he was once bothered by way of ordinary assaults of critical melancholy. Dauben indicates that those performed a vital part in his realizing and safeguard of set concept