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Boundaries Of The Universe

de John S Glasby

64,91€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Among other things this book deals with astronomical instruments and their application, recent discoveries in the solar system, stellar evolution, the exploding starts, the galaxies, quasars, pulsars, the possibilities of extraterrestrial life and relativity.
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Objectivity, Science And Society - Interpreting Nature And Society In The Age Of The Crisis Of Science

de Paul A Komesaroff

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 This work puts forward original and unorthodox ideas about the philosophy and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep problems arising from unresolved dilemmas about the meaning, content and technical applications of the theories of nature they employ.
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Method In The Physical Sciences

de G Schlesinger

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 Can one discern certain regularities in the manoeuvrings and techniques employed by scientists and can these be formulated into the methodological principles of science? This volume investigates these questions and sheds light on the growth mechanism of the evolving structure of science itself.
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Philosophy And Scientific Realism

de J J C Smart

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 In an introductory chapter the author argues that philosophy ought to be more than the art of clarifying thought and that it should concern itself with outlining a scientifically plausible world view.
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Social Impact Of Modern Biology

de Fuller Watson

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 As our understanding of living processes, such as inheritance, grows, so do the possibilities of applying these results for good and evil, such as the treatment of disease, the control of ageing, behaviour and genetic engineering. These discoveries and their implications are discussed by some of the worldâ€™s leading biologists.
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British Scientists Of The Twentieth Century

de J G Crowther

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 Following on from British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century, this volume covers six eminent British scientists whose work and personality have not receded into the same depth of perspective as their predecessors of the Nineteenth Century, but the tremendous changes following the two world wars have already cut them off sharply from this generation.
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Beyond Empiricism - Philosophy Of Science In Sociology

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 This volume explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociologyâ€™s self-understanding. The author proposes a schematic outline of the structure of inquiry, paying detailed attention to questions about the nature of theory, explanation and demonstration.
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Scientific Knowledge And Sociological Theory

de Barry Barnes

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 Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory centres on the problem of explaining the manifest variety and contrast in the beliefs about nature held in different groups and societies. The sociological interest of such beliefs is illustrated and a sociological perspective upon scientific change is developed.
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Continuous Creation - A Biological Concept Of The Nature Of Matter

de Wilfred Branfield

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 Already aware that chalk, limestone and coal seams are the residues of ancient life, the author suggests that this knowledge may also be applied to the rest of matter. In that case, he argues, the origin of the world was not cosmic upheaval which broke down at last into life, but organic life itself.
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Glimpsing Reality - Ideas In Physics And The Link To Biology

de Paul & F David Buckley & Peat

251,75€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought explore issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at what may form the next scientific revolution.
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Darwin And The Naked Lady - Discursive Essays On Biology And Art

de Alex Comfort

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 The essays in this volume focus on the awareness of science and art, evolution and Freudian psychology.
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Frames Of Meaning - The Social Construction Of Extraordinary Science

de Hm Collins e Tj Pinch

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 Taking a radical interpretation of the Kuhnian concept of paradigm incommensurability, the authors begin by discussing the difficulties of gaining access to the ideas of communities with different rational categories, and then define the subject area of parapsychology, offering a review of the relevant literature.
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Empiricism, Explanation And Rationality - An Introduction To The Philosophy Of The Social Sciences

de Len Doyal e Roger Harris

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 This introduction to the philosophy of the social sciences provides coherent answers to questions about empiricism, explanation and rationality
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Evidence And Meaning - Studies In Analytic Philosophy

de Robert J Fogelin

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 The first part of the study is concerned with the role of warrant statements in theoretical discourse; while the second part concerns their role in practical discourse. Also examined are necessity, probability, knowing, seeing and the complex of terms which allow us tointroduce an argumentative structure into discourse.
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Scientific Revolution

de Peter Harman

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 This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows how the transformation in world-view during the period was affected by broader historical terms.
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Common Scientist Of The Seventeenth Century - A Study Of The Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1708

de K Theodore Hoppen

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 Based on a wide range of manuscript and other sources, this book illuminates, by means of an examination of a particular group of natural philosophers, on problems of general interest to all those concerned with the wider aspects of science in this period.
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Cooke And Wheatstone - And The Invention Of The Electric Telegraph

de Geoffrey Hubbard

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 This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was founded, and the curious route by which it came to England. It discusses the way in which two such antagonistic men were driven into collaboration and sets out the history of the early telegraph lines, including work on the London and Birmingham Railway and the Great Western Railway.
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Soviet Marxism And Natural Science - 1917-1932

de David Joravsky

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 In this volume the author correlates the development of ideas with trends in the Cultural Revolution and against this background it is possible to understand why debates over general philosophy gave way to conflicts over specific sciences in the aftermath of the first Five Year Plan and why there was a genuine crisis in Soviet biology.
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Experience And Theory - An Essay In The Philosophy Of Science

de Stephan Korner

64,91€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This volume analyzes the general structure of scientific theories, their relation to experience and to non-scientific thought.
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Astronomical Revolution - Copernicus - Kepler - Borelli

de Alexandre Koyré

404,13€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This volume traces the development of the revolution which so drastically altered manâ€™s view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "astronomical revolution" was accomplished in three stages, each linked with the work of one man: Copernicus, Kepler and Borelli.
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Evolutionary Theory And Christian Belief - The Unresolved Conflict

de David Lack

64,91€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book is concerned with the conflict between "Darwinism" as the Victorians called it, and Christianity, a conflict here re-stated in modern terms because it so vitally affects our understanding of human nature and human values today.
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Induction And Intuition In Scientific Thought

de P B Medawar

70,21€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning.
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Philosophy Of Science And Sociology - From The Methodological Doctrine To Research Practice

de Edmund Mokrzycki

64,91€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book concentrates on the impact of philosophy of science on sociology and other disciplines.
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Royal Society: Concept And Creation

de Margery Purver

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 This volume investigates its underlying purpose and creation, at the same time uncovering the real nature of its debt to Francis Bacon and its role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.
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