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Overview
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Columbia University Press, 1981
- Contents
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pt. 1. Physical sciences: Physical knowledge and values: New physics
Physical knowledge and society: Eddington and the English-speaking world ; Fock and the Soviet Union ; Heisenberg and Germany ; Bergson, Monod, and France
pt. 2. Biological sciences: Biological knowledge and values: Studying animals to learn about man ; Primatology and sociobiology
Biological knowledge and society: Eugenics: Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia ; Biomedical ethics
pt. 3. Reactions to the dilemma of science and values: Public concerns about science and technology: the question of limits of inquiry
Attempts to provide a philosophical overview
pt. 4. What kind of expansionism do we want?: Science and values: attempts at historical understanding. - Notes
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Includes index.
Bibliography: pages 415-439.
pt. 1. Physical sciences: Physical knowledge and values: New physics -- Physical knowledge and society: Eddington and the English-speaking world ; Fock and the Soviet Union ; Heisenberg and Germany ; Bergson, Monod, and France -- pt. 2. Biological sciences: Biological knowledge and values: Studying animals to learn about man ; Primatology and sociobiology -- Biological knowledge and society: Eugenics: Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia ; Biomedical ethics -- pt. 3. Reactions to the dilemma of science and values: Public concerns about science and technology: the question of limits of inquiry -- Attempts to provide a philosophical overview -- pt. 4. What kind of expansionism do we want?: Science and values: attempts at historical understanding.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0231051921
9780231051927
023105193X
9780231051934 - Physical Description
- x, 449 pages ; 24 cm
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