Author: James Bryant ConantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science
Author: James Bryant ConantHarvard Case Histories in Experimental Science
Author: James Bryant ConantHarvard Case Histories in Experimental Science
Author: Criticism and the History of Science
Author: AnderssonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004450572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Criticism and the History of Science deals with Thomas Kuhn's, Imre Lakatos's and Paul Feyerabend's criticism of Karl Popper's falsificationist conception of science. It argues that this criticism is based on two important methodological problems: the problem that observations and tests statements are fallible and impregnated with theory, and the problem of how to test complex theoretical systems. In order to solve these problems it shows how problematic test statements can be criticised and whole theoretical systems falsified. In this way the falsificationist conception of science is developed and defended in a way making a deeper understanding of science and its history possible.
Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science
Author: James Bryant ConantAntoine Lavoisier
Author: Arthur DonovanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521566728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Comprehensive account illuminating Lavoisier's role in the rise of modern chemistry and the French Revolution.
The Medical Imagination
Author: Sari AltschulerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249860
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Medical Imagination traces the practice of using imagination and literature to craft, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. This history of imaginative experimentation provides a usable past for conversations about the role of the humanities in health research and practice today.
How We Teach Science
Author: John L. RudolphPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674240383
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A former Wisconsin high school science teacher makes the case that how and why we teach science matters, especially now that its legitimacy is under attack. Why teach science? The answer to that question will determine how it is taught. Yet despite the enduring belief in this country that science should be taught, there has been no enduring consensus about how or why. This is especially true when it comes to teaching scientific process. Nearly all of the basic knowledge we have about the world is rock solid. The science we teach in high schools in particular—laws of motion, the structure of the atom, cell division, DNA replication, the universal speed limit of light—is accepted as the way nature works. Everyone also agrees that students and the public more generally should understand the methods used to gain this knowledge. But what exactly is the scientific method? Ever since the late 1800s, scientists and science educators have grappled with that question. Through the years, they’ve advanced an assortment of strategies, ranging from “the laboratory method” to the “five-step method” to “science as inquiry” to no method at all. How We Teach Science reveals that each strategy was influenced by the intellectual, cultural, and political circumstances of the time. In some eras, learning about experimentation and scientific inquiry was seen to contribute to an individual’s intellectual and moral improvement, while in others it was viewed as a way to minimize public interference in institutional science. John Rudolph shows that how we think about and teach science will either sustain or thwart future innovation, and ultimately determine how science is perceived and received by the public.
Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science
Author: James Bryant ConantPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674598546
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Volume 1
Author: James Bryant ConantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description