Literature And Science As Modes Of Expression

Author : F.R. Amrine
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400922973
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Science as Modes of Expression written by F.R. Amrine and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Boston Studies series in 1985, Cohen, Elkana, and Wartofsky wrote in another preface such as this that the time had come for establishing institutions supporting a vision to which the series had been devoted since its inception, namely that of a more broadly conceived, interdisciplinary study of the history and philosophy of science: In recent years it has become evident that, in addition to serious and competent disciplinary work on the specifics of the History of Science, the Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Science, there is now a growing need to develop a problem oriented approach which no longer distinguishes between these three specialties in a cut and dried way. Since the time has come for such an approach, the institutional tools should be provided. A way to do so would be . . . to organize colloquia and to publish good papers stemming from these, without attempting to organize the papers under the separate rubrics of History of Philosophy or Sociology of Science; and moreover to consider it natural that any fundamental issue of the foundations of the sciences, or their place in a culture and the way they are institutionalized in the societal web, is still our concern, no matter whether we are a professional scientist, historian or philosopher who deals with the problem (p. vii).

Author : Frederick Amrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789400922983
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Science As Modes of Expression written by Frederick Amrine and published by . This book was released on 1989-09-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melissa M Littlefield
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472028359
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book The Neuroscientific Turn written by Melissa M Littlefield and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neuroscientific Turn brings together 19 scholars from a variety of fields to reflect on the promises of and challenges facing emergent "neurodisciplines" such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory. In the aftermath of the Decade of the Brain, neuroscience has become one of the hottest topics of study---not only for scientists but also, increasingly, for scholars from the humanities and social sciences. While the popular press has simultaneously lauded and loathed the coming "neurorevolution," the academy has yet to voice any collective speculations about whether there is any coherence to this neuroscientific turn; what this turn will and should produce; and what implications it has for inter- or transdisciplinary inquiry. Melissa M. Littlefield and Jenell M. Johnson provide an initial framework for this most recent of "turns" by bringing together 14 original essays by scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and neurosciences. The resulting collection will appeal to neuroscientists curious about their colleagues' interest in their work; scholars and students both in established neurodisciplines and in disciplines such as sociology or English wondering about how to apply neuroscience findings to their home disciplines; and to science, technology, and society scholars and students interested in the roles of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in the construction of knowledge.

Author : Bruce
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004657983
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Literature and Science written by Bruce and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as a starting point the embeddedness of all disciplinary and interdisciplinary inquiry - since interdisciplinarity is itself not a unitary phenomenon but encompasses many different knowledge practices embedded in widely differing political, economic and ideological constituencies - the essays in this volume explore in different ways some of the conversations currently taking place across disciplinary boundaries in the exciting new field of literature and science. Like literature, science is seen as a site of competing ideological constructions, as a complex (and richly ambiguous) element of modern (and postmodern) social discourse, circulating in a wider cultural community where its currency fluctuates according to complex changes in social and epistemic conditions, including the relative prestige or cultural capital of 'science' (or 'literature') within professional and disciplinary hierarchies at any given time.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780918024855
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Literature and Science written by Aldous Huxley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philipp Erchinger
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474438970
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artful Experiments written by Philipp Erchinger and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them

Author : Hugh Chisholm
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jennifer Burwell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262037556
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Quantum Language and the Migration of Scientific Concepts written by Jennifer Burwell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How highly abstract quantum concepts were represented in language, and how these concepts were later taken up by philosophers, literary critics, and new-age gurus. The principles of quantum physics—and the strange phenomena they describe—are represented most precisely in highly abstract algebraic equations. Why, then, did these mathematically driven concepts compel founders of the field, particularly Erwin Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, and Werner Heisenberg, to spend so much time reflecting on ontological, epistemological, and linguistic concerns? What is it about quantum concepts that appeals to latter-day Eastern mystics, poststructuralist critics, and get-rich-quick schemers? How did their interpretations and misinterpretations of quantum phenomena reveal their own priorities? In this book, Jennifer Burwell examines these questions and considers what quantum phenomena—in the context of the founders' debates over how to describe them—reveal about the relationship between everyday experience, perception, and language. Drawing on linguistic, literary, and philosophical traditions, Burwell illuminates representational and linguistic problems posed by quantum concepts—the fact, for example, that quantum phenomena exist only as probabilities or tendencies toward being and cannot be said to exist in a particular time and place. She traces the emergence of quantum theory as an analytic tool in literary criticism, in particular the use of wave/particle duality in interpretations of gender differences in the novels of Virginia Woolf and critics' connection of Bohr's Principle of Complementarity to poetic form; she examines the “quantum mysticism” of Fritjof Capra and Gary Zukav; and she concludes by analyzing “nuclear discourse” in the context of quantum concepts, arguing that it, too, adopts a language of the unthinkable and the indescribable.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
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Download or read book Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 856 pages
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Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: