This book is written in a style that uncovers the mathematical theories buried in our everyday lives such as examples from patterns that appear in nature, art, and traditional crafts, and in mathematical mechanisms in techniques used by architects. The authors believe that throu…
by Priest, Graham, Hintikka, Jaakko, Benthem, Johan, Street, Tony, Symons, John, Rahman, Shahid, Rahman, Shahid, Wansing, Heinrich, Tahiri, Hassan, Bendegem, Jean Paul, Dubucs, Jacques, Fagot-Largeault, Anne, Fraassen, Bas, Gabbay, Dov, Lambert, Karel, Sandu, Gabriel, Williamson, Timothy
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This book brings together papers of the conference on 'Space, Geometry and the Imagination from Antiquity to the Modern Age' held in Berlin, Germany, 27-29 August 2012. Focusing on the interconnections between the history of geometry and the philosophy of space in the pre-Modern…
This book explores the exciting world of theoretical biology and is divided into three sections. The first section examines the roles played by renowned scientists such as Jacob, Monod, Rosen, Turing, von Bertalanffy, Waddington and Woodger in developing the field of theoretical…
This book addresses contemporary geographical issues in the Mediterranean Basin from a perspective that recognizes the physical characteristics & cultural interactions which link the different Mediterranean states as a known geographic entity.
A statement on how "knowledge" is socialized and assimilated by a culture, investigating popular and canonical fiction, early encyclopedias, and other popular efforts at mass education and knowledge dissemination.
"This ground-breaking text offers a fresh perspective on the governance of science from the standpoint of social and political theory. Science has often been seen as the only institution that embodies the elusive democratic ideal of the 'open society'. Yet, science remains an el…
"This ground-breaking text offers a fresh perspective on the governance of science from the standpoint of social and political theory. Science has often been seen as the only institution that embodies the elusive democratic ideal of the 'open society'. Yet, science remains an el…
In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science. This turn involved seeing science as a socially based enterprise that does no…
