Positioning the History of Science
The present volume, compiled in honor of an outstanding historian of science, physicist and exceptional human being, Sam Schweber, is unique in assembling a broad spectrum of positions on the history of science by some of its leading representatives. Readers will find it illuminating to learn how pr...
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| Άλλοι συγγραφείς: | , |
| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2007.
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| Σειρά: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ;
248 |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Big History?
- Big History?
- Suggestions for the Study of Science
- Will Einstein Still be the Super-Hero of Physics History in 2050?
- For a History of Knowledge
- Working in Parallel, Working Together
- Challenges in Writing About Twentieth Century East Asian Physicists
- Why Should Scientists Become Historians?
- From the social to the moral to the spiritual: the postmodern exaltation of the history of science
- Between Science and History
- The Search for Autonomy in History of Science
- Without Parallels?: Averting a Schweberian Dystopia
- The Intellectual Strengths of Pluralism and Diversity
- On Connoisseurship
- Concerning Energy
- Reflections on a Discipline
- The Woman in Einstein’s Shadow
- The Mutual Embrace: Institutions and Epistemology
- History, Science, and History of Science
- Parallel Lives and The History of Science
- Discarding Dichotomies, Creating Community: Sam Schweber and Darwin Studies
- Public Participation and Industrial Technoscience Today: The difficult question of accountability
- The Character of Truth
- Schweber, Physicist, Historian and Moral Example
- What’s New in Science?
- On The Road
- Plutarchian Versus Socratic Scientific Biography
- Problems Not Disciplines
- Physicist-Historians
- Letting the Scientists Back In
- Science As History
- Postscript.
