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OverviewOn the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Boston Studies series in 1985, Cohen, Elkana, and Wartofsky wrote in another preface such as this that the time had come for establishing institutions supporting a vision to which the series had been devoted since its inception, namely that of a more broadly conceived, interdisciplinary study of the history and philosophy of science: In recent years it has become evident that, in addition to serious and competent disciplinary work on the specifics of the History of Science, the Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Science, there is now a growing need to develop a problem oriented approach which no longer distinguishes between these three specialties in a cut and dried way. Since the time has come for such an approach, the institutional tools should be provided. A way to do so would be . . . to organize colloquia and to publish good papers stemming from these, without attempting to organize the papers under the separate rubrics of History of Philosophy or Sociology of Science; and moreover to consider it natural that any fundamental issue of the foundations of the sciences, or their place in a culture and the way they are institutionalized in the societal web, is still our concern, no matter whether we are a professional scientist, historian or philosopher who deals with the problem (p. vii). Full Product DetailsAuthor: F.R. AmrinePublisher: Springer Imprint: Springer Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989 Volume: 115 Weight: 0.345kg ISBN: 9789401075312ISBN 10: 940107531 Pages: 201 Publication Date: 19 October 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsDiscourses of the Island.- Discourses of the Nerve.- Experiment and Fiction.- Hypotyposes.- The Mythological Transformations of Renaissance Science: Physical Allegory and the Crisis of Alchemical Narrative.- “What Ever Happened to Ethics?”.- Nature as Construct.- “Observe how healthily — how calmly I can tell you the whole story”: Moral Insanity and Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’.- Conceptualizing Technology in Literary Terms: Some American Examples.- Literature and the Authority of Technology.- “A Place to Step Further”: Jack Spicer’s Quantum Poetics.- Index of Names.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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