Pursuing the Unity of Science

Pursuing the Unity of Science

Ideology and Scientific Practice from the Great War to the Cold War

Somsen, Geert; Kamminga, Harmke

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2016

244

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Inglês

9780754640356

15 a 20 dias

640

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Contents: Preface; Introduction, Harmke Kamminga and Geert Somsen; Meanings of scientific unity: the law, the orchestra, the pyramid, quilt and ring, Peter Galison; The unifying vision: Julian Huxley, evolutionary humanism and the evolutionary synthesis, Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis; Unity through experiment? Reductionism, rhetoric and the politics of nuclear science, 1918-40, Jeff Hughes; Scientists of the world unite: socialist internationalism and the unity of science, Geert Somsen; Government as scientific process in H.G. Wells's world state, Rein de Wilde and Geert Somsen; Unifying science against Fascism: neuropsychiatry and medical education in the Spanish Civil War, Fernando SalmA (3)n and Rafael Huertas; 'To formulate a plan for better living': visual communication and scientific planning in Paul Rotha's documentary films, 1935-1945, Timothy Boon; Unifying science and human culture: the promotion of the history of science by George Sarton and Frans Verdoorn, Bert Theunissen; The unity of knowledge and the diversity of knowers: science as an agent of cultural integration in the United States between the two world wars, David A. Hollinger; McCarthyism in philosophy and the end of the unity of science ideology, George Reisch; Index.
Young Men;Bert Theunissen;British Science Guild;David A. Hollinger;Book Men;Fernando Salm?N;Science Movement;Geert Somsen;Scientific Nationalism;George Reisch;Vice Versa;Jeff Hughes;International Research Council;Peter Galison;Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung;Rafael Huertas;John Dos Passos;Rein De Wilde;Dos Passos;Timothy Boon;British Social Relations;Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis;Lancelot Hogben;Hermann Helmholtz;Frans Verdoorn;Emil Du Bois Reymond;Common Language;De Valdecilla;Rutherford Bohr Atomic Theory;German Nationalist Liberals;Dutch Scientists;Logical Empiricism;Amsterdam Academy;Evolutionary Synthesis;Cavendish Laboratory;Rudolph Carnap