Between Science and Values / Loren R. Graham.

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  • De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) ; ISBN: 9783110442489
Published
  • New York, NY : Columbia University Press [1981]
Physical description
1 online resource
ISBN
  • 9780231878951 (ebk.)
Notes
  • Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
  • In English.
  • Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)
  • Available in electronic full text to members of the University via the Library web catalogue.
Audience
  • specialized
Contents
  • Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Expansionism and Restrictionism -- I. The Physical Sciences -- Physical Knowledge and Values -- 1. The New Physics -- Physical Knowledge and Society -- 2. Eddington and the English-Speaking World -- 3. Fock and the Soviet Union -- 4. Heisenberg and Germany -- 5. Bergson, Monod, and France -- Part II. The Biological Sciences -- Biological Knowledge and Values -- 6. Studying Animals to Learn About Man -- 7. Primatology and Sociobiology -- Biological Knowledge and Society -- 8. Eugenics: Weimar Germany And Soviet Russia -- 9. Biomedical Ethics -- Part III. Reactions to the Dilemma of Science and Values -- 10. Public Concerns About Science and Technology: The Question of Limits of Inquiry -- 11. Attempts to Provide a Philosophical Overview -- Part IV. What Kind of Expansionism Do We Want? -- 12. Science and Values: Attempts at Historical Understanding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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  • Illustrated
  • text
Language
  • English
  • Explores the historical relationship between science and values throughout the twentieth century through an examination of specific historical instances of interactions between science and values. Looks at both physical and biological sciences.

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Between Science and Values / Loren R. Graham.

Author
In
  • De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) ; ISBN: 9783110442489
Published
  • New York, NY : Columbia University Press [1981]
Physical description
1 online resource
ISBN
  • 9780231878951 (ebk.)
Notes
  • Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
  • In English.
  • Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)
  • Available in electronic full text to members of the University via the Library web catalogue.
Audience
  • specialized
Contents
  • Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Expansionism and Restrictionism -- I. The Physical Sciences -- Physical Knowledge and Values -- 1. The New Physics -- Physical Knowledge and Society -- 2. Eddington and the English-Speaking World -- 3. Fock and the Soviet Union -- 4. Heisenberg and Germany -- 5. Bergson, Monod, and France -- Part II. The Biological Sciences -- Biological Knowledge and Values -- 6. Studying Animals to Learn About Man -- 7. Primatology and Sociobiology -- Biological Knowledge and Society -- 8. Eugenics: Weimar Germany And Soviet Russia -- 9. Biomedical Ethics -- Part III. Reactions to the Dilemma of Science and Values -- 10. Public Concerns About Science and Technology: The Question of Limits of Inquiry -- 11. Attempts to Provide a Philosophical Overview -- Part IV. What Kind of Expansionism Do We Want? -- 12. Science and Values: Attempts at Historical Understanding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Related item
Genre
  • Illustrated
  • text
Language
  • English
  • Explores the historical relationship between science and values throughout the twentieth century through an examination of specific historical instances of interactions between science and values. Looks at both physical and biological sciences.

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