Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

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1. Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought

   By P B Medawar

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with Whewell, Pierce and Popper can give the scientist a useful insight into the way he thinks....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Frames of Meaning

   The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science

   By H M & T J Collins & Pinch

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1982. 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,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Cooke and Wheatstone

   And the Invention of the Electric Telegraph

   By Geoffrey Hubbard

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Boundaries of the Universe

   By John S Glasby

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   The boundaries of space exploration are being pushed back constantly, but the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is as great as ever. Among other things this book deals with astronomical instruments and their application, recent discoveries in the solar system, stellar...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Beyond Empiricism

   Philosophy of Science in Sociology

   Edited by Andrew Tudor

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1982. This volume explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociology’s self-understanding. Recently philosophers of science have broken with the empiricism once fundamental to their discipline, and have sought...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Evolution and Human Behaviour

   An Introduction to Darwinian Anthropology

   By Alex Alland

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within the framework of Darwinian evolution. Rejecting analogue models of biological evolution common in the social...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
7. The Common Scientist of the Seventeenth Century

   A Study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683-1708

   By K Theodore Hoppen

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Learned societies, such as the Royal Society of London and the Dublin Philosophical Society were a central feature of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. This volume shows that a study of the work and membership of these groups is essential before any realistic assessment can be...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
8. Soviet Marxism and Natural Science

   1917-1932

   By David Joravsky

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against established authority. The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
9. Objectivity, Science and Society

   Interpreting nature and society in the age of the crisis of science

   By Paul A Komesaroff

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

   Originally published in 1986. This work remains of compelling interest to those concerned with the natural sciences and their social problems. It puts forward original and unorthodox ideas about the philosophy of and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep...

   Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge
10. Science and Religion

    Edited by Harold K Schilling

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science

    Originally published in 1963.This volume provides a rigorous interpretation that portrays science and religion in their actualities as personal, communal and cultural phenomena involving different concerns, conceptions and modes of inquiry. The role of key aspects of their life and thought are...

    Published August 17th 2008 by Routledge