The Workshop and the World
What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority
Robert P. Crease looks at questions about when a scientific discovery becomes accepted fact, who decides this and how citizens should interact with the scientific process. He answers by introducing the world's greatest thinkers and explaining how they shaped scientific progress.At a time when the Catholic Church assumed total authority, Bacon, Galileo and Descartes were the first to articulate the idea of scientific expertise, while writers such as Shelley and Comte questioned the scientific process. Centuries later, scholars such as Atatürk and Arendt examined the relationship between the scientific community and the public-especially in tim…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-29243-5
- EAN: 9780393292435
- Produktnummer: 27556641
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H23.7 cm x B16.7 cm x D2.8 cm 568 g
- Abbildungen: 25 black and white images
- Gewicht: 568
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Robert P. Crease is the chairman of the philosophy department at Stony Brook University and the author of several books on science, including The Quantum Moment and The Great Equations. He lives in New York City.
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