Scientific controversies : philosophical and historical perspectives /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. |
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| Description: | x, 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4238053 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Scientific Controversies: An Introduction
- Part I. The Structure of Scientific Controversies
- 1.. Patterns of Scientific Controversies
- 2.. Classifying Scientific Controversies
- 3.. Rhetoric and Scientific Controversies
- 4.. On the Cognitive Analysis of Scientific Controversies
- Part II. Historical and Contemporary Reflections on Controversies
- 5.. The Concept of the Individual and the Idea(l) of Method in seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
- 6.. Dialectics, Experiments, and Mathematics in Galileo
- 7.. A Rational Controversy over Compounding Forces
- 8.. The Structure of a Scientific Controversy: Hooke versus Newton about Colors
- 9.. Scientific Dialectics in Action: the Case of Joseph Priestley
- 10.. Controversies and the Becoming of Physical Chemistry
- 11.. Anthropology: Art of Science? A Controversy about the Evidence for Cannibalism
- 12.. Multiple Personalities, Internal Controversies, and Invisible Marvels
- 13.. The Theory of Punctuated Equilibria: Taking Apart a Scientific Controversy
- 14.. Quasars, Causality, and Geometry: A Scientific Controversy that Should Have Happened but Didn't
- Index
