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" World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic Papers from a German-american Summer Institute, 1988. "
Woodward, W.R.
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775170
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b595165
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Woodward, W.R.
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World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation Science Studies in the German Democratic Republic Papers from a German-american Summer Institute, 1988.\ Woodward, W.R.
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Springer Verlag, 2013
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9401131643
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: 9789401131643
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I: Introduction.- World Views and Scientific Discipline Formation: How East German Science Studies Contributed to the Fall of the Cultural Wall.- On the Origin and Nature of Scientific Disciplines.- II: Ideas and Institutions.- Relating Evolutionary Theory to the Natural Sciences.- Dialectical Understanding of the Unity of Scientific Knowledge.- History of Science in the GDR: Institutions and Programmatic Positions.- III: Mathematics in a Socio-Political Context.- Historiography of Mathematics: Aims, Methods, Tasks.- The Berlin' society for Scientific Philosophy' as Organizational Form of Philosophizing in the Medium of Natural Science.- Mathematics and Ideology in Fascist Germany.- IV: Psychology Constructs its Subject Matter.- Imageless Thought or Stimulus Error? The Social Construction of Private Experience.- The Berlin Psychological Tradition: Between Experiment and Quasi-Experimental Design, 1850-1990.- Move over Darwin: The Ontogenetic Sources of William Preyer's Developmental Psychology.- On the Interdisciplinary Genesis of Experimental Methods in Nineteenth-Century German Psychology.- V: Physics in the Context of Philosophy and Theory Of Science.- From Boltzmann to Planck: On Continuity in Scientific Revolutions.- Walther Nernst and Quantum Theory.- Historical Explanations in Modern Physics: The Lesson of Modern Quantum Mechanics.- Fritz London and the Community of Quantum Physicists.- VI: Theory as Method.- The Middle Ages: Darkness in the Sciences.- to the Basic Concepts of Communication-Oriented Science Studies.- Philosophical Problems of Modern Psychology.- VII: Discipline Formation of Philosophy.- Neo-Kantianism and Epistemology: On the Formation of a Philosophical Discipline in Nineteenth-Century Germany.- The Transformation of German Philosophy in the Context of Scientific Research in the Nineteenth Century.- Reform Efforts of Logic at Mid-Nineteenth Century in Germany.- VIII: Biological Evolution in the Mirror of Theories of Evolution.- August Weismann: One of the First Synthetic Theorists of Evolutionary Biology.- Darwin and the German Theologians.- Two Faces of Biologism: Some Reflections on a Difficult Period in the History of Biology in Germany.- What Keeps a Species Together.- IX: Teachers and Students: Chemistry Laboratories and Dissertations.- The Training in Germany of English-Speaking Chemists in the Nineteenth Century and its Profound Influence in America and Britain.- Science and Practice in German Agriculture: Justus von Liebig, Hermann von Liebig, and the Agricultural Experiment Stations.- Things Are Seldom What They Seem: The Story of Non-Phosphorylating Glycolysis.- X: Natural Science and Naturphilosophie.- Goethe's Morphology of Stones: Between Natural History and Historical Geology.- The Philosophy of Living Things: Schilling's Naturphilosophie as a Transition to the Philosophy of Identity 339.- A New Correspondence of the Philosopher F. W. J. Schelling.- The Influence of Jakob Friedrich Fries on Matthias Schleiden.- XI: Science and Society.- The Geographical Vision and the Popular Order of Disciplines, 1848-1870.- Knowledge Transfer in the Nineteenth Century: Young, Navier, Roebling, and the Brooklyn Bridge.- Soviet-German Scientific Relations before World War II: Fruitful Cooperation in Different Social Orders.- XII: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge.- Bourgeois Berlin Salons: Meeting Places for Culture and the Sciences.- Max Delbruck: A Physicist in Biology.- 'Nobody Can Become a Real Engineer Who Has Not Already Become a Whole Person'.- Summer Institute Program 1988.- About the Authors.- Name Index.
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Q174.W663 2013
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Cohen, Robert S.
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