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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780226373072
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 426 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    DDC: 303.483097309046
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    Keywords: Counterculture History 20th century ; Science Social aspects ; HISTORY / General ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Adult Swim: How John C. Lilly Got Groovy (and Took the Dolphin with Him), 1958- 1968 -- 2. Blowing Foam and Blowing Minds: Better Surfing through Chemistry -- 3. Santa Barbara Physicists in the Vietnam Era -- 4. Between the Counterculture and the Corporation: Abraham Maslow and Humanistic Psychology in the 1960s -- 5. A Quest for Permanence: The Ecological Visioneering of John Todd and the New Alchemy Institute -- 6. The Little Manual That Started a Revolution: How Hippie Midwifery Became Mainstream -- 7. The Unseasonable Grooviness of Immanuel Velikovsky -- 8. Timothy Leary's Transhumanist SMI2LE -- 9. Science of the Sexy Beast: Biological Masculinities and the Playboy Lifestyle -- 10. Alloyed: Countercultural Bricoleurs and the Design Science Revival -- 11. How the Industrial Scientist Got His Groove: Entrepreneurial Journalism and the Fashioning of Technoscientific Innovators -- 12. When Chèvre Was Weird: Hippie Taste, Technoscience, and the Revival of American Artisanal Food Making -- Afterword: The Counterculture's Looking Glass -- Contributors -- Index
    Abstract: In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague," and even seeking "subversion of the scientific worldview" itself. Roszak's view has come to be our own: when we think of the youth movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, we think of a movement that was explicitly anti-scientific in its embrace of alternative spiritualities and communal living. Such a view is far too simple, ignoring the diverse ways in which the era's countercultures expressed enthusiasm for and involved themselves in science-of a certain type. Rejecting hulking, militarized technical projects like Cold War missiles and mainframes, Boomers and hippies sought a science that was both small-scale and big-picture, as exemplified by the annual workshops on quantum physics at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, or Timothy Leary's championing of space exploration as the ultimate "high." Groovy Science explores the experimentation and eclecticism that marked countercultural science and technology during one of the most colorful periods of American history
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  • 2
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9783319065267
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 338 p. 65 illus, online resource)
    Series Statement: Models and Modeling in Science Education 8
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Science teachers' use of visual representations
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschule ; Lehre ; Visualisierung
    Abstract: This book examines the diverse use of visual representations by teachers in the science classroom. It contains unique pedagogies related to the use of visualization, presents original curriculum materials as well as explores future possibilities. The book begins by looking at the significance of visual representations in the teaching of science. It then goes on to detail two recent innovations in the field: simulations and slowmation, a process of explicit visualization. It also evaluates the way teachers have used different diagrams to illustrate concepts in biology and chemistry. Next, the book explores the use of visual representations in culturally diverse classrooms, including the implication of culture for teachers’ use of representations, the crucial importance of language in the design and use of visualizations, and visualizations in popular books about chemistry. It also shows the place of visualizations in the growing use of informal, self-directed science education. Overall, the book concludes that if the potential of visualizations in science education is to be realized in the future, the subject must be included in both pre-service and in-service teacher education. It explores ways to develop science teachers’ representational competence and details the impact that this will have on their teaching. The worldwide trend towards providing science education for all, coupled with the increased availability of color printing, access to personal computers and projection facilities, has lead to a more extensive and diverse use of visual representations in the classroom. This book offers unique insights into the relationship between visual representations and science education, making it an ideal resource for educators as well as researchers in science education, visualization and pedagogy
    Description / Table of Contents: Section A: Research into teaching with visual representationsIntroduction -- Chapter 1 : The significance of visual representations in the teaching of science, B. Eilam, J.K. Gilbert -- Chapter 2 : Teaching and researching visual representations: Shared vision or divided world? S. Ainsworth & L. Newton -- Section B: Teachers’ selections, constructions and use of visual representations -- Introduction -- Chapter 3 : Representing visually: What teachers know and what they prefer, B. Eilam, Y. Poyas, R. Hasimshoni -- Chapter 4 : Slowmation: A process of explicit visualisation, J. Loughran -- Chapter 5 : Secondary biology teachers’ use of different types of diagrams for different purposes, Y. Liu, M. Won, D.F. Treagust -- Chapter 6 : Teaching stoichiometry with particulate diagrams - linking macro phenomena and chemical equations, M.W. Cheng, J.K. Gilbert -- Section C: Teachers’ use of visual representations in culturally-diverse classrooms -- Introduction -- Chapter 7 : Thoughts on visualizations in diverse cultural settings: The case of France and Pakistan, E. De Vries, M. Ashraf -- Chapter 8 : The implication of culture for teachers’ use of representations, B. Waldrip, S. Satupo, F. Rodie -- Chapter 9 : The interplay between language and visualization: The role of the teacher, L. Mammino -- Chapter 10: Visualizations in popular books about chemistry, J.K. Gilbert, A. Afonso -- Section D: Teachers’ supporting student learning from visual representations -- Introduction -- Chapter 11 : Teachers using interactive simulations to scaffold inquiry instruction in physical science education, D. Geelan, X.Fan -- Chapter 12: Transformed instruction: Teaching in a student-generated representations learning environment, O. Parnafes, R. Trachtenberg-Maslaton -- Chapter 13: The laboratory for making things: Developing multiple representations of knowledge, J. Bamberger -- Section E: Overview -- Chapter 14: Developing science teachers’ representational competence and its impact on their teaching, J.K.Gilbert, B. Eilam.
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107043176 , 1107043174
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 246 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    Uniform Title: Essays. Selections
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    Keywords: Science Social aspects ; SCIENCE / Physics ; Science Social aspects ; Science Social aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Gesellschaft ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftsethik ; Gesellschaft
    Abstract: "Does science have limits? Where does order come from? Can we understand consciousness? Written by Nobel Laureate Leon N. Cooper, this book places pressing scientific questions in the broader context of how they relate to human experience. Widely considered to be a highly original thinker, Cooper has written and given talks on a large variety of subjects, ranging from the relationship between art and science, possible limits of science, to the relevance of the Turing Test. These essays and talks have been brought together for the first time in this fascinating book, giving readers an opportunity to experience Cooper's unique perspective on a range of subjects. Tackling a diverse spectrum of topics, from the conflict of faith and science to whether understanding neural networks could lead to machines that think like humans, this book will captivate anyone interested in the interaction of science with society"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Science and Society: 1. Science and human experience; 2. Does science undermine our values?; 3. Can science serve mankind?; 4. Modern science and contemporary discomfort: metaphor and reality; 5. Faith and science; 6. Art and science; 7. Fraud in science; 8. Why study science? The keys to the cathedral; 9. Is evolution a theory? A modest proposal; 10. The silence of the second; 11. Introduction to Copenhagen; 12. The unpaid debt; Part II. Thought and Consciousness: 13. Source and limits of human intellect; 14. Neural networks; 15. Thought and mental experience: the Turing test; 16. Mind as machine: will we rubbish human experience?; 17. Memory and memories: a physicist's approach to the brain; 18. On the problem of consciousness; Part III. On the Nature and Limits of Science: 19. What is a good theory?; 20. Shall we deconstruct science?; 21. Visible and invisible in physical theory; 22. Experience and order; 23. The language of physics; 24. The structure of space; 25. Superconductivity and other insoluble problems; 26. From gravity to light and consciousness: does science have limits?.
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  • 4
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789400745636
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XX, 379 p. 46 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Cultural Studies of Science Education 8
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Science education for diversity
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    Keywords: Science Study and teaching ; Religion and education ; Education ; Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Religion and education ; Pädagogische Soziologie
    Abstract: Reflecting the very latest theory on diversity issues in science education, including new dialogic approaches, this volume explores the subject from a range of perspectives and draws on studies from around the world. The work discusses fundamental topics such as how we conceptualize diversity as well as examining the ways in which heterogeneous cultural constructs influence the teaching and learning of science in a range of contexts. Including numerous strategies ready for adoption by interested teachers, the book addresses the varied cultural factors that influence engagement with science education. It seeks answers to the question of why increasing numbers of students fail to connect with science education in schools and looks at the more subtle impact that students’ individually constructed identities have on the teaching and learning of science. Recognizing the diversity of its audience, the book covers differing levels and science subjects, and examines material from a range of viewpoints that include pedagogy, curricula, teacher education, learning, gender, religion, and ICT, as well as those of in-service and trainee teachers at all levels
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Why Science Education for Diversity?; Introduction; What Do We Mean by Diversity?; Social and Historical Context; Cultural Diversity and Science Education; Sociocultural and Dialogic Perspectives; Tensions and Dilemmas; Argument and Structure of This Book; References; Part I: Science Education Reform for Diversity; Dialogic Science Education for Diversity; Introduction: The Science Education for Diversity Project; What Is Science?; Monologic, Dialogic and Diversity; How Do We Conceptualise Diversity?; Developing a Framework for Science Education for Diversity
    Description / Table of Contents: How Do We Make Science Education More Relevant?Will Inquiry-Based Science Education (IBSE) Help?; Explicitly Dialogic Pedagogy; Connecting to Real Science; Mastery Learning Combined with Dialogic Science Pedagogy; Teaching the Nature of Science; Teaching Thinking in Science and Through Science; The Role of ICT; The Need for Guided Collaborative Critical Reflection on Action; Summary and Conclusion; References; Expanding Notions of Scientific Literacy: A Reconceptualization of Aims of Science Education in the Knowledge Society
    Description / Table of Contents: The "Two Cultures" and the Need for a Broader Notion of Scientific LiteracyScientific Literacy Reconceptualized; Science Engagement Curriculum Policy Images; Science and the Public: An Online Graduate Program; The Inconvenient Truth: A Documentary on Global Warming; Oceanside Community Science Project (Roth and Lee 2004; Roth and Calabrese 2004); Conclusions; References; Activity, Subjectification, and Personality: Science Education from a Diversity-of-Life Perspective; Cultural-Historical Activity Theory; Activity and Actions; Subjectification; Personality; On the Way to Become a Doctor
    Description / Table of Contents: Early Activities and RelationsHigh School Science; Science Internship; College Science; Resident Care Assistant; Coda; References; Reflexivity and Diversity in Science Education Research in Europe: Towards Cultural Perspectives; Introduction; Cultural Studies and Issues of Diversity in Science Education; The State of the Art of Cultural Studies of Science Education in Europe; Reflexivity: Theoretical Barriers and Horizons; Towards Cultural Studies as a Unifying Research Paradigm; References; Part II: From Learning to Pedagogy; Science Education for Diversity and Informal Learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Importance of Informal Environments for Learning ScienceKey Features of Science Learning in Informal Environments; Activation of Prior Knowledge; Acknowledging and Valuing Multiple Perspectives; Sociocultural Frameworks for Informal Science Learning; Sociocultural Approach with Individual Science Learning Goals: Social Constructivism; Sociocultural Approach with Community Learning Goals: Collective Praxis; The Practice of Informal Science Education for Diversity; Examples of the Impact of Exhibit Design on Collaborative Talk; Involving Diverse Groups in Development of Programs and Exhibits
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    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Why science education for diversity? Nasser Mansour and Rupert Wegerif -- Part 1. Science education reform for diversity -- Chapter 1: Dialogic Science Education for Diversity, Rupert Wegerif, Keith Postlethwaite, Nigel Skinner, Nasser Mansour, Alun Morgan, Lindsay Hetherington -- Chapter2: Expanding Notions of Scientific Literacy: A Re-conceptualization of Aims of Science Education in the Knowledge Society, Xiufeng Liu -- Chapter3: Activity, Subjectification, and Personality: Science Education from a Diversity-of-Life Perspective, Wolff-Michael Roth, University of Victoria -- Chapter 4: Reflexivity and diversity in research on science education: A European account, Michiel van Eijck -- Part 2, from learning to pedagogy -- Chapter 5: Science education for diversity and informal learning, Loran E. Parker and Gerald H. Krockover -- Chapter 6: Diverse, disengaged and reactive: A teacher’s adaptation of ethical dilemma story pedagogy as a strategy to re-engage learners in education for sustainability,  Elisabeth Taylor, Peter Charles Taylor and MeiLing Chow -- Chapter 7: Tracing science in the early childhood classroom: the historicity of multi-resourced discourse practices in multilingual interaction, Charles Max, Gudrun Ziegler and Martin Kracheel -- Chapter 8: Conceptual frameworks, metaphysical commitments and worldviews: the challenge of reflecting the relationships between science and religion in science education, Keith S. Taber -- Chapter 9: Science Curriculum Reform on “Scientific Literacy for All” across National Contexts: Case Studies of Curricula from England and Hong Kong, Sibel Erduran and Siu Ling Wong -- Part 3 science teacher Education and diversity -- Chapter 10: Science teachers' cultural beliefs and diversities: A sociocultural perspective to science education, Nasser Mansour -- Chapter 11: Envisioning Science Teacher Preparation for Diversity in 21st Century Classrooms: Some Tensions, Norm Thomson, Deborah J. Tippins -- Chapter12: Expanded agency in multilingual science teacher training classrooms, Silvia Lizette Ramos De Robles & Mariona Espinet -- Part 4  Cultural issues in science Education -- Chapter 13: Re-conceptualizing a lifelong science education system that supports diversity: The role of free-choice learning, Lynn D. Dierking -- Chapter 14: Ignoring half the Sky: A feminist critique of science education’s knowledge society, Kathryn Scantlebury, Anita Hussénius, Kristina Andersson and Annica Gullberg -- Chapter 15: Religion in Science Education, Michael J. Reiss -- Chapter 16: Students’ perceptions of apparent contradictions between science and religion: Creation is only the beginning, Berry Billingsley -- Chapter 17: Gender and science in the Arab states: Current status and future prospects, Saouma BouJaoude & Ghada Gholam.
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780511628719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 639 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Scientific controversies
    DDC: 303.4/83
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    Keywords: Technology Case studies Social aspects ; Technology Case studies Philosophy ; Science Case studies Social aspects ; Science Case studies Philosophy ; Science ; Social aspects ; Case studies ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Case studies ; Science ; Philosophy ; Case studies ; Technology ; Philosophy ; Case studies ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturwissenschaften ; Soziologie ; Naturwissenschaften ; Technik ; Kontroverse ; Ethik
    Abstract: This collection of essays examines the ways in which disputes and controversies about the application of scientific knowledge are resolved. Four concrete examples of public controversy are considered in detail: the efficacy of Laetrile, the classification of homosexuality as a disease, the setting of safety standards in the workplace, and the utility of nuclear energy as a source of power. The essays in this volume show that debates about these cases are not confined to matters of empirical fact. Rather, as is seen with most scientific and technical controversies, they focus on and are structured by complex ethical, economic, and political interests. Drs. Engelhardt and Caplan have brought together a distinguished group of scholars from the sciences and humanities, who sketch a theory of scientific controversy and attempt to provide recommendations about the ways in which both scientists and the public ought to seek more informed resolutions of highly contentious issues in science and technology. Scientific Controversies is offered as a contribution to the better understanding of the roles of both science and nonscientific interests in disputes and controversies pertaining to science and technology
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Homosexuality. Politics, science, and the problem of psychiatric nomenclature : a case study of the American Psychiatric Association referendum on homosexuality , Patterns of controversy and closure : the interplay of knowledge, values, and political forces , The diagnostic status of homosexuality in DSM-III : a reformulation of the issues , On arriving at the American Psychiatric Association decision on homosexuality , Safety in the workplace. Values in the debate over workplace safety and health : the rancorous rhetoric about regulation / r Gilbert S. Omenn ; The successful experiment that failed , The power of efficiency : balancing benefits and costs in regulating occupational exposure to toxic substances , Closure in occupational safety and health : the benzene and cotton dust decisions , Nuclear power. Nuclear fear : a history and an experiment , Closure and controversy : Three Mile Island , Understanding the nuclear power controversy , Controversy, closure, and the public. The role of the mass media in scientific controversy , The National Commission on Human Experimentation : procedures and outcomes , The forms and norms of closure / Ruth Macklin. , Theoretical perspectives. Ethical theory and the problem of closure , Scientific controversy and its termination , The political anatomy of controversy in the sciences , Controversies involving science and technology : a theoretical perspective , Politics, public policy-making, and the process of reaching closure , The role of experts in scientific controversy , The continental drift debate , How history and politics affect closure in biomedical discussions : the example of the Soviet Union , Scientific disputes over policy , Controversies and the authority of science , Post-Skinner and post-Freud : philosophical causes of scientific disagreements , Contemporary case studies. Laetrile. Resolution of the Laetrile controversy : past attempts and future prospects , Federal regulation of Laetrile , Quasi libertarianism and the Laetrile controversy , Judicial deflection of scientific questions : pushing the Laetrile controversy toward medical closure
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  • 6
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 9780226467245
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (342 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The one culture?
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    Keywords: Science -- Philosophy ; Electronic books ; local ; Science ; Philosophy ; Science ; Social aspects ; Science and state ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenschaftssoziologie
    Abstract: So far the "Science Wars" have generated far more heat than light. Combatants from one or the other of what C. P. Snow famously called "the two cultures" (science versus the arts and humanities) have launched bitter attacks but have seldom engaged in constructive dialogue about the central issues. In The One Culture?, Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins have gathered together some of the world's foremost scientists and sociologists of science to exchange opinions and ideas rather than insults. The contributors find surprising areas of broad agreement in a genuine conversation about science, its legitimacy and authority as a means of understanding the world, and whether science studies undermines the practice and findings of science and scientists. The One Culture? is organized into three parts. The first consists of position papers written by scientists and sociologists of science, which were distributed to all the participants. The second presents commentaries on these papers, drawing out and discussing their central themes and arguments. In the third section, participants respond to these critiques, offering defenses, clarifications, and modifications of their positions. Who can legitimately speak about science? What is the proper role of scientific knowledge? How should scientists interact with the rest of society in decision making? Because science occupies such a central position in the world today, such questions are vitally important. Although there are no simple solutions, The One Culture? does show the reader exactly what is at stake in the Science Wars, and provides a valuable framework for how to go about seeking the answers we so urgently need. Contributors include: Constance K. Barsky, Jean Bricmont, Harry Collins, Peter Dear, Jane Gregory, Jay A. Labinger, Michael Lynch, N. David Mermin, Steve Miller, Trevor Pinch, Peter R. Saulson,
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part One: Positions -- Philosophies -- 2. Does Science Studies Undermine Science? Wittgenstein, Turing, and Polanyi as Precursors for Science Studies and the Science Wars -- 3. Science and Sociology of Science: Beyond War and Peace -- 4. Is a Science Peace Process Necessary? -- Perspectives -- 5. Caught in the Crossfire? The Public's Role in the Science Wars -- 6. Life inside a Case Study -- Origins -- 7. Conversing Seriously with Sociologists -- 8. How to be Antiscientific -- Directions -- 9. Physics and History -- 10. Science Studies as Epistemography -- 11. From Social Construction to Questions for Research: The Promise of the Sociology of Science -- 12. A Martian Sends a Postcard Home -- 13. Awakening a Sleeping Giant? -- Part Two: Commentaries -- 14. Remarks on Methodological Relativism and "Antiscience" -- 15. One More Round with Relativism -- 16. Overdetermination and Contingency -- 17. Reclaiming Responsibility -- 18. Split Personalities, or the Science Wars Within -- 19. Situated Knowledge and Common Enemies: Therapy for the Science Wars -- 20. Real Essences and Human Experience -- 21. It's a Conversation! -- 22. Confessions of a Believer -- 23. Barbarians at Which Gates? -- 24. Peace at Last? -- Part Three: Rebuttals -- 25. Reply to Our Critics -- 26. Crown Jewels and Rough Diamonds: The Source of Science's Authority -- 27. Another Visit to Epistemography -- 28. Let's Not Get Too Agreeable -- 29. Causality, Grammar, and Working Philosophies: Some Final Comments -- 30. Readings and Misreadings -- 31. Peace for Whom and on Whose Terms? -- 32. Pilgrims' Progress -- 33. Historiographical Uses of Scientific Knowledge -- 34. Beyond Social Construction -- 35. Conclusion -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
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  • 7
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 9780226481104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (499 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Victorian science in context
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    Keywords: Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Great Britain ; Social conditions ; 19th century ; Science ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 1995 ; Großbritannien ; Naturwissenschaften ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1837-1901
    Abstract: Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theories such as the radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. Men and women of all social classes avidly collected scientific specimens for display in their homes and devoured literature about science and its practitioners. Victorian Science in Context captures the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture. Contributions from leading scholars in history, literature, and the history of science explore questions such as: What did science mean to the Victorians? For whom was Victorian science written? What ideological messages did it convey? The contributors show how practical concerns interacted with contextual issues to mold Victorian science-which in turn shaped much of the relationship between modern science and culture.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Defining Knowledge -- 1. Defining Knowledge: An Introduction -- 2. The Construction of Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in the Early Victorian Life Sciences -- 3. The Probable and the Possible in Early Victorian England -- 4. Victorian Economics and the Science of Mind -- 5. Biology and Politics: Defining the Boundaries -- 6. Redrawing the Boundaries: Darwinian Science and Victorian Women Intellectuals -- 7. Satire and Science in Victorian Culture -- Part Two: Ordering Nature -- 8. Ordering Nature: Revisioning Victorian Science Culture -- 9. "The Voices of Nature": Popularizing Victorian Science -- 10. Science and the Secularization of Victorian Images of Race -- 11. Elegant Recreations? Configuring Science Writing for Women -- 12. Strange New Worlds of Space and Time: Late Victorian Science and Science Fiction -- Part Three: Practicing Science -- 13. Practicing Science: An Introduction -- 14. Wallace's Malthusian Moment: The Common Context Revisited -- 15. Doing Science in a Global Empire: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in Victorian -- 16. Zoological Nomenclature and the Empire of Victorian Science -- 17. Remains of the Day: Early Victorians in the Field -- 18. Photography as Witness, Detective, and Impostor: Visual Representation in Victorian Science -- 19. Instrumentation and Interpretation: Managing and Representing the Working Environments of Victorian Experimental Science -- 20. Metrology, Metrication, and Victorian Values -- Contributors -- Index.
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9789401593892
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 549 p) , digital
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Lasker, Daniel J. The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy (review) 2003
    Series Statement: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought 7
    Series Statement: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy 7
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Medieval philosophy. ; Philosophy, medieval ; History ; Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History. ; Humanities. ; Social sciences. ; Konferenzschrift 1998 ; Hebräisch ; Enzyklopädie ; Wissenschaft ; Philosophie ; Geschichte 500-1500 ; Jüdische Philosophie ; Geschichte 1100-1400
    Abstract: In January 1998 leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel in the fields of medieval encyclopedias (Arabic, Latin and Hebrew) and medieval Jewish philosophy and science gathered together at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for an international conference on medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. The primary purpose of the conference was to explore and define the structure, sources, nature, and characteristics of the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy. This book, the first to devote itself to the medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy, contains revised versions of the papers that were prepared for this conference. This volume also includes an annotated translation of Moritz Steinschneider's groundbreaking discussion of this subject in his Die hebraeischen Übersetzungen. The Medieval Hebrew Encyclopedias of Science and Philosophy will be of particular interest to students of medieval philosophy and science, Jewish intellectual history, the history of ideas, and pre-modern Western encyclopedias
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511563706
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 422 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1945-1992 ; Informationstechnik ; Sozialverträglichkeit ; Kerntechnik ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Biotechnologie ; Protestbewegung ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: This book compares resistance to technology across time, nations, and technologies. Three post-war examples - nuclear power, information technology, and biotechnology - are used in the analysis. The focus is on post-1945 Europe, with comparisons made with the USA, Japan, and Australia. Instead of assuming that resistance contributes to the failure of a technology, the main thesis of the book is that resistance is a constructive force in technological development, giving technology its particular shape in a particular context. Whilst many people still believe in the positive contribution made by science and technology, many have become sceptical. By exploring the idea that modernity creates effects that undermine its own foundations, forms and effects of resistance are explored in various contexts. The book presents a unique interdisciplinary study, including contributions from historians, sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists.
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  • 10
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    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
    ISBN: 9780226668208 , 0226668207
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 474 pages) , Diagramme
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    Keywords: Wittgenstein, Ludwig ; Wittgenstein, Ludwig ; Conocimiento, Teoría del ; Sciences / Aspect social ; Connaissance, Théorie de la ; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects ; Knowledge, Theory of ; Science / Social aspects ; Wetenschapssociologie ; Kennissociologie ; Sciences / Étude et enseignement ; Sciences / Aspect social ; Théorie de la connaissance ; Sociologie des sciences ; Kultur ; Technologietransfer ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Gesellschaft ; Naturwissenschaft ; Science Social aspects ; Knowledge, Theory of ; Wissenssoziologie ; Technologietransfer ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Naturwissenschaften ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturwissenschaften ; Wissenssoziologie ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Kultur ; Technologietransfer ; Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , From science as knowledge to science as practice / Andrew Pickering -- The self-vindication of the laboratory sciences / Ian Hacking -- Putting agency back into experiment / David Gooding -- The couch, the cathedral, and the laboratory : on the relationship between experiment and laboratory in science / Karin Knorr Cetina -- Constructing quaternions : on the analysis of conceptual practice / Andrew Pickering and Adam Stephanides -- Crafting science : standardized packages, boundary objects, and "translation" / Joan H. Fujimura -- Extending Wittgenstein : the pivotal move from epistemology to the sociology of science / Michael Lynch -- Left and right Wittgensteinians / David Bloor -- From the "will to theory" to the discursive collage : a reply to Bloor's "Left and right Wittgensteinians" / Michael Lynch -- Epistemological chicken / H.M. Collins and Steven Yearley , Some remarks about positionism : a reply to Collins and Yearley / Steve Woolgar -- Don't throw the baby out with the bath school! : a reply to Collins and Yearley / Michel Callon and Bruno Latour -- Journey into space / H.M. Collins and Steven Yearley -- Social epistemology and the research agenda of science studies / Steve Fuller -- Border crossings : narrative strategies in science studies and among physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan / Sharon Traweek , Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on. Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists of science to prepare original essays for this volume. The essays range over the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and are divided into
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