Author: Simon Somerville LauriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Synthetica
Author: Simon Somerville LauriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Synthetic
Author: Sophia RoosthPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022644046X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from mechanical and electrical engineering and computer science resolved that if the aim of biology was to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Sophia Roosth, a cultural anthropologist, takes us into the world of these self-named synthetic biologists who, she shows, advocate not experiment but manufacture, not reduction but construction, not analysis but synthesis. Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. What we see through her careful questioning is that the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon are determined circularly by their own experimental tactics. This is a story of broad interest, because the active, interested making of the synthetic biologists is endemic to the sciences of our time."
Bulletin
Author: United States National MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
United States-Mexico Law Journal
Author: Annual Report
Author: Missouri Botanical GardenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publishes scientific papers along with the Director's report to the Board, and various other information about activities at the Garden.
Insect Life
Author: Charles Valentine RileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Month
Author: Mind
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
A quarterly review of philosophy.
Syllogistic Logic and Mathematical Proof
Author: PROF PAOLO. MUGNAI MANCOSU (PROF MASSIMO.)Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198876920
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Does syllogistic logic have the resources to capture mathematical proof? This volume provides the first unified account of the history of attempts to answer this question, the reasoning behind the different positions taken, and their far-reaching implications. Aristotle had claimed that scientific knowledge, which includes mathematics, is provided by syllogisms of a special sort: 'scientific' ('demonstrative') syllogisms. In ancient Greece and in the Middle Ages, the claim that Euclid's theorems could be recast syllogistically was accepted without further scrutiny. Nevertheless, as early as Galen, the importance of relational reasoning for mathematics had already been recognized. Further critical voices emerged in the Renaissance and the question of whether mathematical proofs could be recast syllogistically attracted more sustained attention over the following three centuries. Supported by more detailed analyses of Euclidean theorems, this led to attempts to extend logical theory to include relational reasoning, and to arguments purporting to reduce relational reasoning to a syllogistic form. Philosophical proposals to the effect that mathematical reasoning is heterogenous with respect to logical proofs were famously defended by Kant, and the implications of the debate about the adequacy of syllogistic logic for mathematics are at the very core of Kant's account of synthetic a priori judgments. While it is now widely accepted that syllogistic logic is not sufficient to account for the logic of mathematical proof, the history and the analysis of this debate, running from Aristotle to de Morgan and beyond, is a fascinating and crucial insight into the relationship between philosophy and mathematics.
Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309049466
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program was established with the goal of destroying the nation's stockpile of lethal unitary chemical weapons. Since 1990 the U.S. Army has been testing a baseline incineration technology on Johnston Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Under the planned disposal program, this baseline technology will be imported in the mid to late 1990s to continental United States disposal facilities; construction will include eight stockpile storage sites. In early 1992 the Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies was formed by the National Research Council to investigate potential alternatives to the baseline technology. This book, the result of its investigation, addresses the use of alternative destruction technologies to replace, partly or wholly, or to be used in addition to the baseline technology. The book considers principal technologies that might be applied to the disposal program, strategies that might be used to manage the stockpile, and combinations of technologies that might be employed.