science its limits

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Science & Its Limits

出版日：2000/02/01 作者：Delvin Lee Ratzsch; Del Ratzsch 出版社：Intervarsity Pr 裝訂：平裝

Science, especially naturalistic science, has come under fire of late. No longer does it command the near universal respect it once held. From the right has come a fresh attack on Darwinism and argume

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Exploring the Limits of the Human Through Science Fiction

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Exploring the Limits of the Human Through Science Fiction

出版日：2012/12/24 作者：Gerald Alva Miller Jr. 出版社：Palgrave Macmillan 裝訂：精裝

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction examines the genre of science fiction as its own form of critical theory and argues that it proves crucial to understanding the human in the p

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Gender in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China

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Gender in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China

出版日：2011/07/25 作者：Harriet Evans 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Based on recent primary research in anthropology, sociology, history and politics, and on insights from political activism, Gender in Flux addresses gender as a main axis of social organization and cultural practice in China. Covering the impoverished rural 'sending' villages of western China to the big and wealthy Yangzi valley city of Nanjing, the far northeastern village of Huangbaiyu to the major urban centres of Tianjin and Beijing, it examines gendered practices and experiences in socio-economic, political and administrative configurations, family and household organization, education, employment and mobility, and generation. The volume addresses gendered expectations and practices as lived experience within and across different scales, challenging the standard social science division of urban, rural and migrant. Gender in Flux thus sheds important light on how the changing manifestations and articulations of gender across different practices confound any attempt at a uniform ana

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Philosophical Theorizing and Its Limits: Anti-Theory in Ethics and Philosophy of Science

出版日：2025/03/19 作者：Uri D. Leibowitz(EDI) 出版社：Springer Nature 裝訂：精裝

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Setting Limits ― Gambling, Science, and Public Policy

出版日：2019/02/20 作者：Pekka Sulkunen; Thomas F. Babor; Jenny Cisneros Ornberg; Michael Egerer; Matilda Hellman 出版社：Oxford Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Commercial gambling is a recent historical phenomenon. It has developed into a profitable industry that supplies a range of recreational activities to its customers, and is a significant way of collec

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Interdisciplinarity in Technology Assessment ― Implementation and Its Chances and Limits

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Interdisciplinarity in Technology Assessment ― Implementation and Its Chances and Limits

出版日：2002/11/01 作者：M. Decker; M. Decker (EDT) 出版社：Springer Verlag 裝訂：平裝

Technology Assessment processes can be taken as a paradigm for interdisciplinary research. It is expected that interdisciplinary Technology Assessment is able to find solutions for actual sociopolitic

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The Limits to Growth Revisited

出版日：2011/06/01 作者：Ugo Bardi; Ian Johnson (FRW) 出版社：Springer Verlag 裝訂：平裝

“The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limi

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Rational Choice Theory—Potential and Limits

出版日：2011/11/15 作者：Lina Eriksson 出版社：Palgrave Macmillan 裝訂：平裝

Few approaches in political science have generated so much controversy as rational choice theory. Some claim that the approach has made political science scientific. Its critics argue that it involves

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Outer Limits ─ The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Science-Fiction Films

出版日：2014/06/24 作者：Howard Hughes 出版社：St Martins Pr 裝訂：平裝

Science fiction is probably the most popular box office genre in movie history and has given filmgoers some of their most memorable cinematic experiences. Outer Limits takes its readers on a tour of t

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The New Phrenology: The Limits of Localizing Cognitive Processes in the Brain

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The New Phrenology: The Limits of Localizing Cognitive Processes in the Brain

出版日：2003/01/24 作者：William R. Uttal 出版社：Bradford Books 裝訂：平裝

William Uttal is concerned that in an effort to prove itself a hard science, psychology may have thrown away one of its most important methodological tools—a critical analysis of the fundamenta

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The Limits of Participation ― Members And Leaders in Canada's Reform Party

出版日：2005/10/30 作者：Faron Ellis 出版社：Univ of Calgary Pr 裝訂：平裝

Ellis (political science and history, Lethbridge Community College, Canada) chronologically examines the evolution of Canada's Reform Party from its founding in the late 1980s to its eventual decommis

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The Limits of Politics:An Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge, 23 April 2008

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The Limits of Politics:An Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge, 23 April 2008

出版日：2009/11/16 作者：Andrew Gamble 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

This lecture explores the limits of politics in three senses: as a subject of study at Cambridge, as an academic discipline, and as a practical activity. Politics did not develop as an independent academic subject in Cambridge in the twentieth century, and only now is this situation being rectified with the creation of the new Department of Politics and International Studies. Politics as an academic discipline was once conceived as the master science. More recently it has become much more limited in its scope and its methods, but it still needs to preserve a tradition of political reasoning which focuses on problems rather than methodology, and is concerned with understanding the limits to politics. The limits of politics as a practical activity are explored through four modes of political reasoning: the sceptical, the idealist, the rationalist and the realist, as exemplified by the writings of Oakeshott, Keynes, Hayek, and Carr.

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The Age of Post-Rationality ─ Limits of economic reasoning in the 21st century

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The Age of Post-Rationality ─ Limits of economic reasoning in the 21st century

出版日：2017/11/22 作者：Val Colic-Peisker; Adrian Flitney 出版社：Palgrave Macmillan 裝訂：精裝

This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-base

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Science Unlimited? ─ The Challenges of Scientism

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Science Unlimited? ─ The Challenges of Scientism

出版日：2017/12/04 作者：Maarten Boudry ; Massimo Pigliucci 出版社：Univ of Chicago Pr 裝訂：軟精

All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science overstepping its proper limits—about its brazenness, arrogance, and intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientis

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Science Unlimited? ─ The Challenges of Scientism

出版日：2017/12/04 作者：Maarten Boudry ; Massimo Pigliucci 出版社：Univ of Chicago Pr 裝訂：平裝

All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science overstepping its proper limits—about its brazenness, arrogance, and intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientis

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Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science and Policy

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Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science and Policy

出版日：2000/03/28 作者：Alexander Rosenberg 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

A collection of essays by Alexander Rosenberg, the distinguished philosopher of science. The essays cover three broad areas related to Darwinian thought and naturalism: the first deals with the solution of philosophical problems such as reductionism, the second with the development of social theories, and the third with the intersection of evolutionary biology with economics, political philosophy, and public policy. Specific papers deal with naturalistic epistemology, the limits of reductionism, the biological justification of ethics, the so-called 'trolley problem' in moral philosophy, the political philosophy of biological endowments, and the Human Genome Project and its implications for policy. Rosenberg's important writings on a variety of issues are here organized into a coherent philosophical framework which promises to be a significant and controversial contribution to scholarship in many areas.

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Art Therapy ― The Science of Happiness

出版日：2015/07/09 作者：Paul Catalani 出版社：Createspace Independent Pub 裝訂：平裝

The best thing about Art Therapy is that it doesn’t ask for you to have the mad skills of Leonardo da Vinci or Picasso to be admitted and reap its benefits. Also, it doesn’t have age limits. So it’s b

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The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet

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The Earth Machine: The Science of a Dynamic Planet

出版日：2004/06/30 作者：Edmond A. Mathez; James D. Webster 出版社：Columbia Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

From the scorching center of Earth's core to the outer limits of its atmosphere, from the gradual process of erosion that carved the Grand Canyon to the earth-shaking fury of volcanoes and earthquakes

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Realism, Ethics and Secularism:Essays on Victorian Literature and Science

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Realism, Ethics and Secularism:Essays on Victorian Literature and Science

出版日：2008/10/27 作者：George Levine 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

George Levine is one of the world's leading scholars of Victorian literature and culture. This collection of his essays develops the key themes of his work: the intersection of nineteenth-century British literature, culture and science and the relation of knowledge and truth to ethics. The essays offer perspectives on George Eliot, Thackeray, the Positivists, and the Scientific Naturalists, and reassess the complex relationship between Ruskin and Darwin. In readings of Lawrence and Coetzee, Levine addresses Victorian and modern efforts to push beyond the limits of realist art by testing its aesthetic and epistemological limits in engagement with the self and the other. Some of Levine's most important contributions to the field are reprinted, in revised and updated form, alongside previously unpublished material. Together, these essays cohere into an exploration both of Victorian literature and culture and of ethical, epistemological, and aesthetic problems fundamental to our own times.

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The Earth Machine ─ The Science of a Dynamic Planet

出版日：2007/04/01 作者：Edmond A. Mathez; James D. Webster 出版社：Columbia Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

From the scorching center of Earth's core to the outer limits of its atmosphere, from the gradual process of erosion that carved the Grand Canyon to the earth-shaking fury of volcanoes and earthquakes

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The Wealth of Nations ― Complexity Science for an Interdisciplinary Approach in Economics

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The Wealth of Nations ― Complexity Science for an Interdisciplinary Approach in Economics

出版日：2014/11/18 作者：Klaus Jaffe 出版社：Createspace Independent Pub 裝訂：平裝

Classic economic science is reaching the limits of its explanatory powers. Complexity science uses an increasingly larger set of different methods to analyze physical, biological, cultural, social, an

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The Bront褭 and the Idea of the Human ― Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination

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The Bront褭 and the Idea of the Human ― Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination

出版日：2019/05/31 作者：Alexandra Lewis 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

What does it mean to be human? The Brontë novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontës and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë each responded to scientific, legal, political, theological, literary, and cultural concerns in ways that redraw the boundaries of the human for the nineteenth century. Proposing innovative modes of approach for the twenty-first century, leading scholars shed light on the relationship between the role of the imagination and new definitions of the human subject. This important interdisciplinary study scrutinises the notion of the embodied human and moves beyond it to explore the force and potential of the mental and imaginative powers for constructions of selfhood, community, spirituality, degradation, cruelty, and ethical behaviour in the nineteenth century and its fictional worlds.

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The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination：Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy

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The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination：Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy

出版日：2020/05/31 作者：Karen ní Mheallaigh 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

The Moon exerted a powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. This book explores the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with special focus on those accounts of the Moon, its attributes, and its 'inhabitants' given by ancient philosophers, natural scientists and imaginative writers including Pythagoreans, Plato and the Old Academy, Varro, Plutarch and Lucian. ní Mheallaigh shows how the Moon's enigmatic presence made it a key site for thinking about the gaze (erotic, philosophical and scientific) and the relation between appearance and reality. It was also a site for hoax in antiquity as well as today. Central issues explored include the view from elsewhere (selēnoskopia), the relation of science and fiction, the interaction between the beginnings of science in the classical polis and the imperial period, and the limits of knowledge itself.

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The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination：Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy

出版日：2021/07/29 作者：Karen ní Mheallaigh 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

The Moon exerted a powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. This book explores the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with special focus on those accounts of the Moon, its attributes, and its 'inhabitants' given by ancient philosophers, natural scientists and imaginative writers including Pythagoreans, Plato and the Old Academy, Varro, Plutarch and Lucian. ní Mheallaigh shows how the Moon's enigmatic presence made it a key site for thinking about the gaze (erotic, philosophical and scientific) and the relation between appearance and reality. It was also a site for hoax in antiquity as well as today. Central issues explored include the view from elsewhere (selēnoskopia), the relation of science and fiction, the interaction between the beginnings of science in the classical polis and the imperial period, and the limits of knowledge itself.

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Never Pure ─ Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibili

出版日：2010/04/21 作者：Steven Shapin 出版社：Johns Hopkins Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. T

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Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as if It Was Produced by People with Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibili

出版日：2010/04/21 作者：Steven Shapin 出版社：Johns Hopkins Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To

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Real Science：What it Is and What it Means

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Real Science：What it Is and What it Means

出版日：2000/04/27 作者：John Ziman 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

Scientists and 'anti-scientists' alike need a more realistic image of science. The traditional mode of research, academic science, is not just a 'method': it is a distinctive culture, whose members win esteem and employment by making public their findings. Fierce competition for credibility is strictly regulated by established practices such as peer review. Highly specialized international communities of independent experts form spontaneously and generate the type of knowledge we call 'scientific' - systematic, theoretical, empirically-tested, quantitative, and so on. Ziman shows that these familiar 'philosophical' features of scientific knowledge are inseparable from the ordinary cognitive capabilities and peculiar social relationships of its producers. This wide-angled close-up of the natural and human sciences recognizes their unique value, whilst revealing the limits of their rationality, reliability, and universal applicability. It also shows how, for better or worse, the new 'po

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Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

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Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

出版日：2014/07/31 作者：Allen MacDuffie 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century scholarship, it anchors its investigation at the very roots of the energy problem, in a period that first articulated questions about sustainability, the limits to growth, and the implications of energy pollution for the entire global environment. With chapters on Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells, Allen MacDuffie discusses the representation of urban environments in the literary imaginary, and how those texts helped reveal the gap between cultural fantasies of unbounded energy generation, and the material limits imposed by nature.

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The Simulation of Surveillance：Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies

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The Simulation of Surveillance：Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies

出版日：1996/01/18 作者：William Bogard 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

This compelling book, first published in 1996, is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Bogard constructs a 'social science fiction' of how the revolution in simulation technology reconfigures and intensifies the role of surveillance in war, work, sexuality and private life, enabling forms of control which hyper realise our experience of time, space, agency and society itself. His is a critique of the imaginary in which control breaks free of its prior limits, an imaginary of unmediated perception with effects everywhere in fantastic systems for the relentless conversion of objects, events and people into information.

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Selling Sex in Kenya ― Gendered Agency Under Neoliberalism

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Selling Sex in Kenya ― Gendered Agency Under Neoliberalism

出版日：2020/01/31 作者：Eglė Česnulytė 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

As Kenyan women traditionally have fewer formal employment opportunities, often occupying lower-paid jobs in the informal sector, the experiences of women who earn money in unorthodox ways can offer revealing insights into the agency of women and its limits. Grounded in the narratives and life stories of women selling sex in Kenya, Eglė Česnulytė reveals the range of gendered and gendering effects that neoliberal policies have on everyday socio-political realities. By contextualising and historicising contemporary debates in the field, this important interdisciplinary study explores the societal structures that neo-liberal narratives and reforms influence, their gendered effects, and the extent to which individuals must internalise neoliberal economic logics in order to make or improve their living. In so doing, Česnulytė counters the prevailing male-dominated studies in political science to place women, and female-based narratives at the forefront.

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Prometheus Bound

出版日：1994/05/05 作者：John M. Ziman 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：精裝

After expanding steadily for centuries, science is reaching its limits to growth. We can no longer afford the ever increasing cost of exploring ever wider research opportunities. In the competition for resources, science is becoming much more tightly organised. A radical, pervasive and permanent structural change is taking place. It already affects the whole research system, from everyday laboratory life to national budgets. The scientific enterprise cannot avoid fundamental change, but excessive managerial insistence on accountability, evaluation, 'priority setting', etc. can be very inhospitable to expertise, innovation, criticism and creativity. Can the research system be reshaped without losing many features that have made science so productive? This trenchant analysis of a deep-rooted historical process does not assume any technical knowledge of the natural sciences, their history, philosophy, sociology or politics. It is addressed to everybody who is concerned about the future of

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Prometheus Bound

出版日：2005/09/08 作者：John M. Ziman 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

After expanding steadily for centuries, science is reaching its limits to growth. We can no longer afford the ever increasing cost of exploring ever wider research opportunities. In the competition for resources, science is becoming much more tightly organised. A radical, pervasive and permanent structural change is taking place. It already affects the whole research system, from everyday laboratory life to national budgets. The scientific enterprise cannot avoid fundamental change, but excessive managerial insistence on accountability, evaluation, 'priority setting', etc. can be very inhospitable to expertise, innovation, criticism and creativity. Can the research system be reshaped without losing many features that have made science so productive? This trenchant analysis of a deep-rooted historical process does not assume any technical knowledge of the natural sciences, their history, philosophy, sociology or politics. It is addressed to everybody who is concerned about the future of

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Real Science：What it Is and What it Means

出版日：2002/07/04 作者：John Ziman 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Scientists and 'anti-scientists' alike need a more realistic image of science. The traditional mode of research, academic science, is not just a 'method': it is a distinctive culture, whose members win esteem and employment by making public their findings. Fierce competition for credibility is strictly regulated by established practices such as peer review. Highly specialized international communities of independent experts form spontaneously and generate the type of knowledge we call 'scientific' - systematic, theoretical, empirically-tested, quantitative, and so on. Ziman shows that these familiar 'philosophical' features of scientific knowledge are inseparable from the ordinary cognitive capabilities and peculiar social relationships of its producers. This wide-angled close-up of the natural and human sciences recognizes their unique value, whilst revealing the limits of their rationality, reliability, and universal applicability. It also shows how, for better or worse, the new 'po

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The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France:Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing

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The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France:Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing

出版日：2006/12/14 作者：Daniel Brewer 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

This study explores the problems faced by writers of the Enlightenment, who attempted to demystify all previous forms of knowledge by applying rationalist critiques that can in turn be applied to examine their own critical work. It focuses on the works of one of the best-known writers of eighteenth-century France, Denis Diderot, analysing his experimentation with presenting critical knowledge. Paying close attention to the formal-poetic nature of Diderot's writing, his 'art', it examines the interplay between critical knowledge and its representation, between epistemology and aesthetics. Professor Brewer shows how Diderot's work in the areas of philosophy, science, the fine arts and literature pushed Enlightenment critique to its limits, and points to its remarkable similarity to aspects of modern critical theory.

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The Secret Life of Insects: An Entomological Alphabet

出版日：2009/03/31 作者：Peter Milward 出版社：Transaction Pub 裝訂：精裝

Every science, including the study of insects, may havecircumscribed limits, but its deeper principles open upnew worlds of possibility. Milward uncovers these hiddenprinciples by examining the daily

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Scientific Method in Practice

出版日：2002/12/01 作者：Hugh G. Gauch Jr 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

As the gateway to scientific thinking, an understanding of the scientific method is essential for success and productivity in science. This book is the first synthesis of the practice and the philosophy of the scientific method. It will enable scientists to be better scientists by offering them a deeper understanding of the underpinnings of the scientific method, thereby leading to more productive research and experimentation. It will also give scientists a more accurate perspective on the rationality of the scientific approach and its role in society. Beginning with a discussion of today's 'science wars' and science's presuppositions, the book then explores deductive and inductive logic, probability, statistics, and parsimony, and concludes with an examination of science's powers and limits, and a look at science education. Topics relevant to a variety of disciplines are treated, and clarifying figures, case studies, and chapter summaries enhance the pedagogy. This adeptly executed, c

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The Brontes and the Idea of the Human：Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination

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The Brontes and the Idea of the Human：Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination

出版日：2021/03/18 作者：Alexandra Lewis 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

What does it mean to be human? The Brontë novels and poetry are fascinated by what lies at the core - and limits - of the human. The Brontës and the Idea of the Human presents a significant re-evaluation of how Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë each responded to scientific, legal, political, theological, literary, and cultural concerns in ways that redraw the boundaries of the human for the nineteenth century. Proposing innovative modes of approach for the twenty-first century, leading scholars shed light on the relationship between the role of the imagination and new definitions of the human subject. This important interdisciplinary study scrutinises the notion of the embodied human and moves beyond it to explore the force and potential of the mental and imaginative powers for constructions of selfhood, community, spirituality, degradation, cruelty, and ethical behaviour in the nineteenth century and its fictional worlds.

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Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

出版日：2017/03/23 作者：Allen MacDuffie 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century scholarship, it anchors its investigation at the very roots of the energy problem, in a period that first articulated questions about sustainability, the limits to growth, and the implications of energy pollution for the entire global environment. With chapters on Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad and H. G. Wells, Allen MacDuffie discusses the representation of urban environments in the literary imaginary, and how those texts helped reveal the gap between cultural fantasies of unbounded energy generation, and the material limits imposed by nature.

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Realism, Ethics and Secularism

出版日：2012/07/26 作者：George Levine 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

George Levine is one of the world's leading scholars of Victorian literature and culture. This collection of his essays develops the key themes of his work: the intersection of nineteenth-century British literature, culture and science and the relation of knowledge and truth to ethics. The essays offer perspectives on George Eliot, Thackeray, the Positivists, and the Scientific Naturalists, and reassess the complex relationship between Ruskin and Darwin. In readings of Lawrence and Coetzee, Levine addresses Victorian and modern efforts to push beyond the limits of realist art by testing its aesthetic and epistemological limits in engagement with the self and the other. Some of Levine's most important contributions to the field are reprinted, in revised and updated form, alongside previously unpublished material. Together, these essays cohere into an exploration both of Victorian literature and culture and of ethical, epistemological, and aesthetic problems fundamental to our own times.

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Spaceship Neutrino

出版日：1992/10/15 作者：Christine Sutton 出版社：Cambridge Univ Pr 裝訂：平裝

Try to imagine a spaceship that could pass right through the Earth without even noticing it was there. And one that could cross the vastness of space at the speed of light, and then penetrate into the very heart of subatomic matter to seek out its fundamental structure. Imagine, then, a particle that is almost nothing that can tell you almost everything about the structure of matter and the evolution of the Universe. Impossible? In fact, all of these descriptions can be applied to the neutrino, a subatomic particle that is so elusive it is almost undetectable. Spaceship Neutrino charts the history of the neutrino, from its beginnings in the 1930s, when it was postulated as a way of explaining an otherwise intractable problem in physics, to its crucial role in modern theories of the Universe. Christine Sutton is well known for her popular science writing. In this book she describes how the detection and measurement of neutrino properties have tested technology to its limits, requiring h

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