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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Gavroglu, Kostas (Editor ), Renn, Jürgen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 248
Temas:
Science-Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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