Constructing Quarks
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Constructing Quarks
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Author : Andrew Pickering
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999-12
Constructing Quarks written by Andrew Pickering and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12 with History categories.
Widely regarded as a classic in its field, Constructing Quarks recounts the history of the post-war conceptual development of elementary-particle physics. Inviting a reappraisal of the status of scientific knowledge, Andrew Pickering suggests that scientists are not mere passive observers and reporters of nature. Rather they are social beings as well as active constructors of natural phenomena who engage in both experimental and theoretical practice. "A prodigious piece of scholarship that I can heartily recommend."—Michael Riordan, New Scientist "An admirable history. . . . Detailed and so accurate."—Hugh N. Pendleton, Physics Today
Theory S Empire
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Author : Daphne Patai
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005-04-20
Theory S Empire written by Daphne Patai and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to current anthologies of literary theory, which have embraced an uncritical stance toward Theory and its practitioners. Written by nearly fifty prominent scholars, the essays in Theory's Empire question the ideas, catchphrases, and excesses that have let Theory congeal into a predictable orthodoxy. More than just a critique, however, this collection provides readers with effective tools to redeem the study of literature, restore reason to our intellectual life, and redefine the role and place of Theory in the academy.
Particles Quantum Groups High Tc Phase Transitions And All That Proceedings Of The First Yanbrian International Workshop On Modern Physics
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Author : Kyungsik Kang
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 1991-06-05
Particles Quantum Groups High Tc Phase Transitions And All That Proceedings Of The First Yanbrian International Workshop On Modern Physics written by Kyungsik Kang and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-06-05 with categories.
These proceedings are the culmination of the First Yanbian Workshop on Modern Physics, an epoch making event in Korean history that took place in Yanbian, China during 15-18 July, 1990. The meeting was instrumental to bring the active practitioners in the frontier physic together from many parts of the world including for the first time, those from North Korea. This volume contains the most important lectures by experts in Particle Physics, Conformal Field Theory, High-Tc Superconductivity, Phase Transitions, Medium Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Nature And Sociology
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Author : Tim Newton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-08-07
Nature And Sociology written by Tim Newton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-07 with History categories.
This book engages with, and contests, the ‘new sociology of nature’. It moves beyond existing debates by presenting new social theory and working across current fields of interest, addressing the debate on new genetics and genomics, taking human biology seriously, and the issues of interdisciplinarity that are likely to arise in longer term attempts to work across the social and natural world. Nature and Sociology will be of great interest to students of a variety of disciplines including sociology and social science, human geography, social and biological anthropology, and the natural sciences.
Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed
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Author : Richard C. Brown
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2009
Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed written by Richard C. Brown and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Mathematics categories.
This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls ?postmodern interpretations of science? (PIS) and the closely related ?sociology of scientific knowledge? (SSK). This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn's revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a ?social construction?, having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual forces such as the race, class, gender of the scientist, laboratory politics, or the needs of the military industrial complex.Since the 1970s, PIS has become fashionable in the humanities, social sciences, and ethnic or women's studies, as well as in the new academic discipline of Science, Technology, and Society (STS). It has been attacked by numerous authors and the resulting conflicts led to the so-called Science Wars of the 1990s. While the present book is also critical of PIS, it focuses on its intellectual and political origins and tries to understand why it became influential in the 1970s. The book is both an intellectual and a political history. It examines the thoughts of Karl Popper, Karl Mannheim, Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, David Bloor, Steve Woolgar, Steve Shapin, Bruno Latour, and PIS-like doctrines in mathematics. It also describes various philosophical contributions to PIS ranging from the Greek sophists to 20th century post-structuralists and argues that the disturbed political atmosphere of the Vietnam War era was critical to the rise of PIS.
The Mangle Of Practice
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Author : Andrew Pickering
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1995-08-15
The Mangle Of Practice written by Andrew Pickering and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-15 with Science categories.
This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge. Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors—social, technological, conceptual, and natural—that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, disciplined practices, and human beings are in constantly shifting relationships with one another—"mangled" together in unforeseeable ways that are shaped by the contingencies of culture, time, and place. Situating material as well as human agency in their larger cultural context, Pickering uses case studies to show how this picture of the open, changeable nature of science advances a richer understanding of scientific work both past and present. Pickering examines in detail the building of the bubble chamber in particle physics, the search for the quark, the construction of the quarternion system in mathematics, and the introduction of computer-controlled machine tools in industry. He uses these examples to address the most basic elements of scientific practice—the development of experimental apparatus, the production of facts, the development of theory, and the interrelation of machines and social organization.
Quarks
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Author : Y. Nambu
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 1985
Quarks written by Y. Nambu and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Science categories.
The book explains in a precise and complete manner how elementary particle physics has evolved over the past 50 years. The historical development of the ideas that have shaped our thinking about the ultimate constituents of matter is traced out. The author has been associated with some of the originators of elementary particle theory and has made significant contributions to the field. Here, he gives a first-person description of some of the main developments leading to our present view of the universe.
From Current Algebra To Quantum Chromodynamics
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Author : Tian Yu Cao
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-14
From Current Algebra To Quantum Chromodynamics written by Tian Yu Cao and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-14 with Science categories.
The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of debates that were ongoing between the bootstrap approach and composite modeling, and between mathematical and realistic conceptions of quarks. It explains the origins of QCD in current algebra and its development through high-energy experiments, model-building, mathematical analysis and conceptual synthesis. Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues in detail, this book will interest graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of science.
More Than Nothing
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Author : Aaron Sidney Wright
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-11
More Than Nothing written by Aaron Sidney Wright and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-11 with Education categories.
Across decades and disciplines, More than Nothing offers a scoping history of the vacuum as a lens into the development of modern physics.
Truth Considered And Applied
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Author : Stewart E. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Release Date : 2011-07-05
Truth Considered And Applied written by Stewart E. Kelly and has been published by B&H Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-05 with Religion categories.
For philosophy and theology students, Truth Considered and Applied examines the leading theories of truth in relation to postmodernism, history, and the Christian faith. Author Stewart E. Kelly defends Christianity in the face of postmodernist challenges that would label such religious faith as merely one version of truth among many in a pluralistic world. Likewise, in looking at Christianity as a historical faith, Kelly supports the need for Christians to develop a hermeneutic that does justice to the biblical texts and our informed understanding of the past in general; because if a genuine past cannot be recovered in some meaningful sense, the claims of Jesus being incarnate and risen from the dead are seriously jeopardized.