Author: George CombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Testimonials on Behalf of George Combe, as a Candidate for the Chair of Logic in the University of Edinburgh
Author: George CombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Additional Testimonials on Behalf of George Combe, as a Candidate for the Chair of Logic in the University of Edinburgh
Author: George CombePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Life of George Combe
Author: Charles GibbonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Cultural Boundaries of Science
Author: Thomas F. GierynPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682442X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believe—cultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith, or nonsense. Gieryn looks at episodes of boundary-work: Was phrenology good science? How about cold fusion? Is social science really scientific? Is organic farming? After centuries of disputes like these, Gieryn finds no stable criteria that absolutely distinguish science from non-science. Science remains a pliable cultural space, flexibly reshaped to claim credibility for some beliefs while denying it to others. In a timely epilogue, Gieryn finds this same controversy at the heart of the raging "science wars."
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
The Biblical Repository and Classical Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The American Biblical Repository
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Metropolis and Province
Author: Ian InksterPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135679479
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This collection of case studies, focusing on British scientific culture during the first industrial revolution, explores the social basis of science in the period and asks why such an extraordinarily rich variety of cultural-scientific experience should have flourished at the time. The book analyses science and scientific culture in their local contexts, both metropolitan and provincial, examining where possibel the relations between the two, and emphasizing the range of scientific associations in London, to individual savants in the provinces. This book was first published in 1983.
