Pedagogy and the practice of science : historical and contemporary perspectives
Livre imprimé - Kaiser David, Massachusetts institute of technology, cop. 2005
Pedagogy and the Practice of Science provides the first sustained examination of how scientists' and engineers' training shapes their research and careers. The wide-ran...
The Arabic Hermes : from pagan sage to prophet of science
Livre imprimé - Bladel Kevin Thomas van, 2009
This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed...
Scientific metaphysics
Livre imprimé - Ross Don, Ladyman James, Kincaid Harold, 2013, cop. 2013
Scientific Metaphysics collects original essays by some of the world's leading philosophers of science on the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturali...
Creating scientific concepts
Livre imprimé - Nersessian Nancy J., cop. 2008
How do novel scientific concepts arise? In Creating Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer this central but virtually unasked question in the problem of ...
Invented Edens : techno-cities of the twentieth century
Livre imprimé - Kargon Robert Hugh, Molella Arthur P., cop. 2008
Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban visionaries...
Scientific models in philosophy of science
Livre imprimé - Bailer-Jones Daniela, cop. 2009
Analyse philosophique et historique de modèles scientifiques., ... an original and comprehensive philosophical analysis of how models have been used and interpreted in ...