Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat : scenes from the living laboratory / Rom Harré.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harré, Rom, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal experimentation--History.

Animal experimentation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title reveals the different ways that living creatures have been - and still are - used in scientific discovery.

Contents:

Instruments and apparatus : tools for experimenting

Detecting : hyenas, frogs, zebra fish, and assorted farm animals

Measuring : the bodies of kings, fossils, lichen, and pollen grains

Extending an established domain : dogs, horses, frogs, and trees

Exploring a new domain : a bald mouse, two chimpanzees, and some people

Testing hypotheses : more dogs, monkeys, and ticks

Modelling individuals : yet more dogs, a few mice, and one human stomach

Modelling worlds : voles, peas, fruit flies, finches, and deep oceanic worms

Practising deception : spring wheat and midwife toads

Inventing novel beings : an imaginary cat and virtual life forms.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03708-6

1-282-12609-1

9786612126093

0-19-155348-4

OCLC:

428728601