This book is for scientists and other experts who need to explain the significance and potential of their work to colleagues, committees, funding bodies or the general public. It details how to harness story-telling principles to make complex or technical contents easier to comm…
Das Handbuch bietet insgesamt etwa 23 exemplarische Abhandlungen zu Diskursen und Themenkomplexen der Gelehrten- und Wissenschaftskultur der Frühen Neuzeit (15.-18. Jh.), die in dieser Epoche zwischen Mittelalter und Moderne maßgeblich und orientierend gewesen sind.€Jeder Beitra…
Antisemitism and the constitution of sociology
"Modern antisemitism and the modern discipline of sociology not only emerged in the same period, but--antagonism and hostility between the two discourses notwithstanding--also overlapped and complemented each other. Sociology emerged in a society where modernization was often pe…
In this book, David Stump traces alternative conceptions of the a priori in the philosophy of science and defends a unique position in the current debates over conceptual change and the constitutive elements in science. Stump emphasizes the unique epistemological status of the c…
