Book ID: CBB000501989

Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (2004)

unapi

Wise, M. Norton (Editor)


Duke University Press
Publication date: 2004
Language: English


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: vi + 346 pp.; ill.; bib.; index

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Westfall, Catherine (2005) Review of "Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 678). unapi

Review Kaiser, David (2006) Review of "Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science". American Historical Review (p. 1467). unapi

Review Arabatzis, Theodore (2007) Review of "Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 178). unapi

Review Carson, John (2006) Review of "Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Wise, M. Norton (2004) Introduction: Dynamics All the Way Up. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Dahan Dalmédico, Amy (2004) Chaos, Disorder, and Mixing: A New Fin-de-siécle Image of Science?. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 67). unapi

Chapter Johnson, Ann (2004) From Boeing to Berkeley: Civil Engineers, the Cold War, and the Origins of Finite Element Analysis. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 133). unapi

Chapter Rosental, Claude (2004) Fuzzifying the World: Social Practices of Showing the Properties of Fuzzy Logic. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 159). unapi

Chapter Tauber, Alfred I. (2004) Immunology and the Enigma of Selfhood. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 201). unapi

Chapter Doyle, Richard (2004) Artificial Life Support: Some Nodes in the Alife Ribotype. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 251). unapi

Chapter Helmreich, Stefan (2004) The Word for World is Computer: Simulating Second Natures in Artificial Life. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 275). unapi

Chapter Galison, Peter (2004) Mirror Symmetry: Persons, Values, and Objects. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 23). unapi

Chapter Aubin, David (2004) Forms of Explanation in the Catastrophe Theory of René Thom: Topology, Morphogenesis, and Structuralism. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 95). unapi

Chapter Keller, Evelyn Fox (2004) Marrying the Premodern to the Postmodern: Computers and Organisms after World War II. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 181). unapi

Chapter Löwy, Ilana (2004) Immunology and AIDS: Growing Explanations and Developing Instruments. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 222). unapi

Chapter Emmech, Claus (2004) Constructing and Explaining Emergence in Artificial Life: On Paradigms, Ontodefinitions, and General Knowledge in Biology. In: Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science (p. 301). unapi

Citation URI
stagingisis.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB000501989

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Similar Citations

Article Cohen, H. F.; (2007)
Reconceptualizing the Scientific Revolution unapi

Article Merchant, Carolyn; (2008)
Secrets of Nature: The Bacon Debates Revisited unapi

Article Richard Dawid; (2021)
The role of meta-empirical theory assessment in the acceptance of atomism unapi

Article Eli I. Lichtenstein; (2021)
(Mis)Understanding scientific disagreement: Success versus pursuit-worthiness in theory choice unapi

Article Hannah Tomczyk; (2022)
Did Einstein predict Bose-Einstein condensation? unapi

Article Otero Carvajal, Luis Enrique; (2000)
La Ciencia en España. Un Balance del Siglo XX unapi

Book Livio, Mario; (2013)
Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein---Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe unapi

Book Dargavel, John; Johann, Elisabeth; (2013)
Science and Hope: A Forest History unapi

Book Gómez Ortiz, Antonio; (2004)
El conocimiento glaciar de Sierra Nevada: De la descripción ilustrada del siglo XVIII a la explicación científica actual unapi

Book Maurice Clavelin; (2016)
Galilée, cosmologie et science du mouvement: Suivi de Regards sur l'empirisme au XXe siècle unapi

Article Cord, Robert A.; (2011)
Reinterpreting the Keynesian Revolution: A Research School Analysis unapi

Article Tsou, Jonathan Y.; (2010)
Putnam's Account of Apriority and Scientific Change: Its Historical and Contemporary Interest unapi

Article Casado, Carlo M. Madrid; (2013)
Spain and the Scientific Revolution: State of the Art of a Century-Old Controversy unapi

Thesis Yohe, James Dale; (2006)
A Reexamination of The Structure of Scientific Revolution and Application: The Rise of Mathematical Economics unapi

Article Emmanuel Delille; (2017)
Usages et mésusages de la notion de précurseur en histoire des sciences et des techniques, en particulier en histoire de la psychiatrie: À propos d’un échange épistolaire entre Henri Ellenberger et Georges Canguilhem (1967) unapi

Article Ariew, Roger; (2009)
Some Reflections on Thomas Kuhn's Account of Scientific Change unapi

Chapter Dahan Dalmédico, Amy; (2004)
Chaos, Disorder, and Mixing: A New Fin-de-siécle Image of Science? unapi

Article de Regt, Henk W.; (2001)
Spacetime Visualisation and the Intelligibility of Physical Theories unapi

Book Francesco Barreca; (2017)
La scienza che fu: Idee e strumenti di teorie abbandonate unapi

Article Christián C. Carman; Gonzalo L. Recio; (2022)
Tycho Brahe’s Appendix ad Observationes anni 1593 and the date of Brahe’s theory of Mars, the prototype for Kepler’s vicarious hypothesis unapi

Authors & Contributors
Ariew, Roger
Barreca, Francesco
Carman, Christián Carlos
Casado, Carlo M. Madrid
Clavelin, Maurice
Cohen, H. Floris
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea
European Review
History of Political Economy
Publishers
CNRS
Editrice Bibliografica
Real Acadèmia de Doctors
Simon & Schuster
White Horse Press
Auburn University
Concepts
Development of science; change in science
Historiography
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Philosophy of science
Science, general histories
Revolutions in science
People
Einstein, Albert
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Brahe, Tycho
Canguilhem, Georges
Darwin, Charles Robert
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
Spain
Europe
Sierra Nevada (North America)
Institutions
Cambridge University
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment