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Growing Explanations : Historical Perspectives on Recent Science /
Written by leading historians and philosophers of science, these essays examine the range of subjects, people and goals involved in changing the character of scientific analysis over the last several decades and highlights the alternatives that new fields offer to the re-ordering of knowledge to emp...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2004.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction : dynamics all the way up / M. Norton Wise
- Mirror symmetry : persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison
- Chaos, disorder, and mixing : a new fin-de-siecle image of science? / Amy Dahan Dalmedico
- Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of Rene Thom : topology, morphogenesis, and structuralism / David Aubin
- From Boeing to Berkeley : civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins of finite element analysis / Ann Johnson
- Fuzzyfying the world : social practices of showing the properties of fuzzy logic / Claude Rosental
- Marrying the premodern to the postmodern : computers and organisms after World War II / Evelyn Fox Keller
- Immunology and the enigma of selfhood / Alfred I. Tauber
- Immunology and AIDS : growing explanations and developing instruments / Ilana Löwy
- Artificial life support : some nodes in the Alife ribotype / Richard Doyle
- The word for world is computer : simulating second natures in artificial life / Stefan Helmreich
- Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life : on paradigms, ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology / Claus Emmeche.