书目名称 | The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences |
副标题 | Some Critical and Hi |
编辑 | I. Bernard Cohen (Victor S. Thomas Professor Emeri |
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丛书名称 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
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描述 | .Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences. contains aseries of explorations of the different ways in which the socialsciences have interacted with the natural sciences. Usually, suchinteractions are considered to go only `one way‘: from the natural tothe social sciences. But there are several important essays in thisvolume which show how developments in the social sciences haveaffected the natural sciences - even the `hard‘ science of physics.Other essays deal with various types of interaction since theScientific Revolution..In his general introductory chapter, Cohen sets some general themesconcerning analogies and homologies and the use of metaphors, drawingspecific examples from the use of concepts of physics by marginalisteconomists and of developments in the life sciences by organismicsociologists. The remaining chapters, which explore the different waysin which the social sciences and the natural sciences have actuallyinteracted, are written by leaders in the field of history of science,drawn from a wide range of countries and disciplines..The book will be of great interest to all historians of science,philosophers interested in questions of methodology, economists andsociolog |
出版日期 | Book 1994 |
关键词 | Charles Darwin; history of science; science; scientific revolution; sociology |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3391-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-4258-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-017-3391-5Series ISSN 0068-0346 Series E-ISSN 2214-7942 |
issn_series | 0068-0346 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994 |