Hesse, Mary Brenda
HESSE, Mary Brenda
HESSE, Mary Brenda. British, b. 1924. Genres: Archaeology/Antiquities, Philosophy, Sciences. Career: Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1965-. Reader, 1968-75, and Professor of Philosophy of Science, 1975-85, University of Cambridge. Publications: Science and the Human Imagination, 1954; Forces and Fields, 1961; Models and Analogies in Science, 1963; The Structure of Scientific Inference, 1974; Revolutions and Reconstructions in the Philosophy of Science, 1980; (with M.A. Arbib) The Construction of Reality, 1987.
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