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Alexandre Koyré
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NO SENIOR SCHOLAR was nearly so important to my formation as a historian of science as was Alexandre Koyré. The same in greater or less degree was true of Marshall Clagett, Bernard Cohen, René Taton, Pierre Costabel, Alistair Crombie, Tom Kuhn, Erwin Hiebert, and John Murdoch, to mention no others among our generation. My wife and I first met Koyré and Madame Koyré in 1954 when I was on sabbatical beginning research on science in the French Revolution. The occasion was a soirée given by ...
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Science: The Human Touch So why all this fuss about science studies, asks Steve Fuller, all we do is to treat scientists as people rather than minor deities
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; ... have found our field vaguely threatening. However, their response has been too often like shooting the messenger who bears bad news. The message remains the same. For example, each year I ask my undergraduate students whether science or religion provides a ...
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Jaroszynski, Piotr. Science in Culture.(Book review)
The Review of Metaphysics
; JAROSZYNSKI, Piotr. Science in Culture. Translated by Hugh McDonald. Value Inquiry Book Series, vol. 185. New York/Amsterdam: Rodopi Editions, 2007. xx + 314 pp. Paper, $88.00--Mieczyslaw Krapiec writes in his Foreword to this work that no serious work exists on science as culture has affected it,
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Making the Modern World.(largest historical gallery of Science Museum, London)
History Today
; The Science Museum, London, last year opened its largest historical gallery. Timothy Boon, its Deputy Project Director, explains the role of history within the display. IN HISTORY TODAY in May 2000, Ludmilla Jordanova argued that `public history' is a subject worthy of renewed debate. This broad
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NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: TOWARD A PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE POLICY
Philosophy Today
; The philosophy of science-the attempt to understand the fundamentals of one of the most significant of human activities-has traditionally treated itself as a branch of the field of epistemology. Justification for this delimitation has relied on two distinctions. One is the difference between the
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The pleasure of finding things out: why scientists do science.
Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
; SCIENCE IS A PERSONAL ACTIVITY. With very few exceptions, scientists throughout history have plied their craft not through a lust for glory or material reward, but in order to satisfy their own curiosity about the way the world works. Some have taken this to such extremes that they have kept their
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Anglican Journal
; SCIENCE CAN purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish." (Fides and Ratio, 1998). A group of hunters recently stumbled upon the remains of a Native man who
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; SCIENCE CAN purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish." (Fides and Ratio, 1998). A group of hunters recently stumbled upon the remains of a Native man who
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Science and Theology: An Indroduction / Faith, Science, and Understanding
Anglican Theological Review
; Science and Theology: An Introduction [hereafter ST]. By John Polkinghome. London; Minneapolis: SPCK/Fortress Press, 1998. vi + 144 pp. $20.00 (paper). Faith, Science, and Understanding [hereafter FSU]. By John Polkinghome. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000. xvi + 208 pp. $19.95
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