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1. | | Title: Adventures of a mathematicianAuthor: Ulam, Stanislaw M Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Mathematics | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1944 on, Ulam helped to precipitate some . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Alternative modernity: the technical turn in philosophy and social theoryAuthor: Feenberg, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | History and Philosophy of Science | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: In this new collection of essays, Andrew Feenberg argues that conflicts over the design and organization of the technical systems that structure our society shape deep choices for the future. A pioneer in the philosophy of technology, Feenberg demonstrates the continuing vitality of the critical the . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: America calling: a social history of the telephone to 1940Author: Fischer, Claude S 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Sociology | United States History | Technology and Society | History and Philosophy of Science | American StudiesPublisher's Description: The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology - how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histori . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Averting catastrophe: strategies for regulating risky technologies Author: Morone, Joseph G Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Chernobyl, Bhopal, and Love Canal are symbols of the potentially catastrophic risks that go hand in hand with much modern technology. This volume is a non-partisan study of the imperfect but steadily developing system for containing the risks of such technologies as chemicals, nuclear power, and gen . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: The Boundaries of humanity: humans, animals, machines Author: Sheehan, James J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science | Biology | Technology and SocietyPublisher's Description: To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are ad . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Building a better race: gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boomAuthor: Kline, Wendy 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Gender Studies | American Studies | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during th . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: A company of scientists: botany, patronage, and community at the Seventeenth-century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences Author: Stroup, Alice Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Académie Royale des S . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Creating the Cold War university: the transformation of StanfordAuthor: Lowen, Rebecca S 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Education | Technology and Society | Military History | Californian and Western History | History and Philosophy of Science | California and the West | Intellectual History | United States History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one han . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Darwin in Russian thought Author: Vucinich, Alexander 1914- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Darwin in Russian Thought represents the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Darwin's influence on Russian thought from the early 1860s to the October Revolution. While concentrating on the role of Darwin's theory in the development of Russian science and philosophy, Vucinich also ex . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Dear Carnap, dear Van: the Quine-Carnap correspondence and related workAuthor: Carnap, Rudolf 1891-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: Rudolf Carnap and W. V. Quine, two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, corresponded at length - and over a long period of time - on matters personal, professional, and philosophical. Their friendship encompassed issues and disagreements that go to the heart of contemporary philos . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Descartes's imagination: proportion, images, and the activity of thinking Author: Sepper, Dennis L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Renè Descartes is commonly portrayed as a strict rationalist, a philosopher who theorized a radical, unresolvable split between mind and body. In this long-overdue examination of the role of imagination in Descartes's thought, Dennis Sepper reveals a Descartes quite different from the usual dualisti . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Essential subtleties on the silver sea: the Yin-hai jing-wei: a Chinese classic on ophthalmologyAuthor: Sun, Simiao 581-682 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | China | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei , a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice o . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: The flux of history and the flux of science Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Does thinking have a history? If there are no necessarily changeless structures to be found in things and in our inquiry into them, then what knowledge of the world and ourselves is possible? In this boldly original and elegantly written study, Joseph Margolis argues for a radically historicized vie . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: From chemical philosophy to theoretical chemistry: dynamics of matter and dynamics of disciplines, 1800-1950Author: Nye, Mary Jo Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physical Sciences | PhysicsPublisher's Description: How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteen . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: From c-numbers to q-numbers: the classical analogy in the history of quantum theory Author: Darrigol, Olivier Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | PhysicsPublisher's Description: The history of quantum theory is a maze of conceptual problems, through which Olivier Darrigol provides a lucid and learned guide, tracking the role of formal analogies between classical and quantum theory. From Planck's first introduction of the quantum of action to Dirac's formulation of quantum m . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: The Galileo affair: a documentary historyAuthor: Finocchiaro, Maurice A 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of ScienceSimilar Items | 17. | | Title: Galileo on the world systems: a new abridged translation and guideAuthor: Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | History and Philosophy of Science | HistoryPublisher's Description: Galileo's 1632 book, Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican , comes alive for twentieth-century readers thanks to Maurice Finocchiaro's brilliant new translation and presentation. Condemned by the Inquisition for its heretical proposition that the earth revolves around the . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project: a study in German cultureAuthor: Rose, Paul Lawrence Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | European Studies | Science | Technology and Society | Physics | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. The controversy surrounding Heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his work and the regime for which it was undertake . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Henry David Thoreau and the moral agency of knowing Author: Tauber, Alfred I Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Philosophy | Literature | History and Philosophy of Science | EthicsPublisher's Description: In his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why Thoreau still seems so relevant today - more relevant in many respects than he seemed to his contemporaries. Although Thoreau has been skillfully and thoroughly examined as a writer, naturalist, mystic, historian, social thinker, Tran . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Hermann von Helmholtz and the foundations of nineteenth-century scienceAuthor: Cahan, David Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Victorian HistoryPublisher's Description: Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope, Helmholtz also made many other contributions to physiology, physical theory, philosophy of science an . . . [more]Similar Items |
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