Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
About the Book Series
History and Philosophy of Science reprints a distinguished selection of important texts published in this field over the last century. This set presents a unique opportunity to gain comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the history and philosophy of science.
Philosophy of Science and Sociology: From the Methodological Doctrine to Research Practice
1st Edition
By Edmund Mokrzycki
April 09, 2013
Originally published in 1983. This book concentrates on the impact of philosophy of science on sociology and other disciplines. It argues that the impact of the philosophy of science on sociology from the rise of the Vienna Circle until the mid-1980s resulted in a deep-reaching and, in the author’s...
Science Industry and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Science
1st Edition
By Stephen and Steven Cotgrove & Box
April 09, 2013
Originally published in 1970. Two major changes have characterised science in the twentieth century. Firstly, there has been its rapid growth. Secondly, and central to the theme his book – science is no longer mainly an academic activity carried on in universities. Industry will soon be the largest...
Science and ESP
1st Edition
Edited
By J R Smythies
April 09, 2013
Originally published in 1967. Representing the viewpoints of philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, physicists, psychoanalysts, parapsychologists, psychiatrists and biologists, this volume discusses many aspects of ESP. The general theme is that the phenomena is very valid and can no longer ...
Soviet Marxism and Natural Science: 1917-1932
1st Edition
By David Joravsky
April 09, 2013
Originally published in 1961. Russian Marxist philosophy of science originated among men and women who gave their whole lives to rebellion against established authority. The original tension within Marxist philosophy between positivism and metaphysics was repressed but not resolved in this first ...
Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science
1st Edition
By HM Collins, TJ Pinch
March 21, 2013
Originally published in 1982. Taking a radical interpretation of the Kuhnian concept of paradigm incommensurability, the authors begin by discussing the difficulties of gaining access to the ideas of communities with different rational categories, and then define the subject area of parapsychology,...
Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought
1st Edition
By P B Medawar
March 21, 2013
Originally published in 1969. This book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with Whewell, Pierce and Popper can give the scientist a useful insight into the way he thinks....
Beyond Empiricism: Philosophy of Science in Sociology
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Tudor
March 11, 2013
Originally published in 1982. This volume explores some features of modern philosophy of science from the point of view of their utility for sociology’s self-understanding. Recently philosophers of science have broken with the empiricism once fundamental to their discipline, and have sought ...
Boundaries of the Universe
1st Edition
By John S Glasby
March 11, 2013
The boundaries of space exploration are being pushed back constantly, but the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is as great as ever. Among other things this book deals with astronomical instruments and their application, recent discoveries in the solar system, stellar ...
Cooke and Wheatstone: And the Invention of the Electric Telegraph
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Hubbard
March 11, 2013
Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was ...
Evolution and Human Behaviour: An Introduction to Darwinian Anthropology
1st Edition
By Alex Alland
February 20, 2012
Originally published in 1967. This reprints the second edition of 1973, revised and expanded. Evolution and Human Behaviour considers man’s biological and cultural development within the framework of Darwinian evolution. Rejecting analogue models of biological evolution common in the social ...
The Social Impact of Modern Biology
1st Edition
By Fuller Watson
February 20, 2012
Originally published in 1971. Discoveries in modern biology can radically change human life as we know it. As our understanding of living processes, such as inheritance, grows, so do the possibilities of applying these results for good and evil, such as the treatment of disease, the control of ...
British Scientists of the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By J G Crowther
October 24, 2008
Originally published in 1952. Following on from British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century, this volume covers six eminent British scientists whose work and personality have not receded into the same depth of perspective as their predecessors of the Nineteenth Century, but the tremendous changes ...