Growing explanations : historical perspectives on recent science / M. Norton Wise, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wise, M. Norton.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Science and cultural theory.

Science and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Science--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection addresses a post-WWII shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanations, where the highest goal moves from reductionism towards some understanding of how elementary objects get built up, or "grown up", into complex, objects whose

Contents:

Introduction : dynamics all the way up / M. Norton Wise

Mirror symmetry : persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison

Chaos, disorder, and mixing : a new fin-de-siecle image of science? / Amy Dahan Dalmedico

Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of Rene Thom : topology, morphogenesis, and structuralism / David Aubin

From Boeing to Berkeley : civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins of finite element analysis / Ann Johnson

Fuzzyfying the world : social practices of showing the properties of fuzzy logic / Claude Rosental

Marrying the premodern to the postmodern : computers and organisms after World War II / Evelyn Fox Keller

Immunology and the enigma of selfhood / Alfred I. Tauber

Immunology and AIDS : growing explanations and developing instruments / Ilana Lowy

Artificial life support : some nodes in the Alife ribotype / Richard Doyle

The word for world is computer : simulating second natures in artificial life / Stefan Helmreich

Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life : on paradigms, ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology / Claus Emmeche.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-92342-0

9786612923425

0-8223-9008-6

OCLC:

631549383