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  • Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith ...

    $22.99 USD

  • How Economics Became a Mathematical Science

    by E. Roy Weintraub, Barbara Herrnstein Smith ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, so has the image of mathematics, explains Weintraub, such as ideas about the standards for accepting proof, the meaning of rigor, and the nature of the mathematical enterprise itself. He also shows how ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Heavens on Earth

    Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and even parts of physics and statistics. These pursuits coexisted in the nineteenth-century observatory; ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Body Multiple

    Ontology in Medical Practice

    by Annemarie Mol, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one medical condition appears to be many other things. ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Goodness and Advice:

    by Philip Fisher, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Martha C. Nussbaum, J. B. Schneewind, Barbara Herrnstein Smith ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential moral theories and describing the structure of a new and much more promising theory.Thomson begins by ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • The Mangle in Practice

    Science, Society, and Becoming

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Adrian Franklin ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended, evolutionary, and performative interplay of human and non-human agency. While Pickering’s ideas originated in science and technology studies, this collection aims to extend the mangle’s reach by exploring its application across a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Complexities

    Social Studies of Knowledge Practices

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors to offer—particularly within the field of science studies—approaches to a theory of complexity, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Science without Laws

    Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects—such as flies, mice, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Genes in Development

    Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry predetermined molecular programs or blueprints is pervasive. Yet new scientific discoveries—such as rna transcripts of single genes that can lead to the production of different compounds from the same ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Growing Explanations

    Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

    by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, Peter Galison, Amy Dahan Dalmedico ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them up rather than breaking them down. This collection reflects on the history and significance of this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason

    by John Kadvany, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    The Hungarian émigré Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos’s English-language work is a remarkable historical philosophy rooted in his Hungarian past. Below the surface of his life as ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Aircraft Stories

    Decentering the Object in Technoscience

    by John Law, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells “stories” about a British attempt to build a military aircraft—the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts.Law works to upset the binary between the modernist concept of knowledge, subjects, and objects as having ... Read more

    $25.19 USD