Between science and values / Loren R. Graham. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, (c)1981.Description: x, 449 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780231050927
  • 9780231050934
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Q175
  • Q175.G739.B489 1981
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Contents:
The physical sciences -- Physical knowledge and values -- The new physics -- Physical knowledge and society -- Eddington and the English-speaking world ; -- Fock and the Soviet Union ; -- Heisenberg and Germany ; -- Bergson, Monod, and France -- The biological sciences -- Biological knowledge and values -- Studying animals to learn about man ; -- Primatology and sociobiology -- Biological knowledge and society -- Eugenics: Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia ; -- Biomedical ethics -- Reactions to the dilemma of science and values -- Public concerns about science and technology: the question of limits of inquiry -- Attempts to provide a philosophical overview -- What kind of expansionism do we want? -- Science and values: attempts at historical understanding.
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The physical sciences -- Physical knowledge and values -- The new physics -- Physical knowledge and society -- Eddington and the English-speaking world ; -- Fock and the Soviet Union ; -- Heisenberg and Germany ; -- Bergson, Monod, and France -- The biological sciences -- Biological knowledge and values -- Studying animals to learn about man ; -- Primatology and sociobiology -- Biological knowledge and society -- Eugenics: Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia ; -- Biomedical ethics -- Reactions to the dilemma of science and values -- Public concerns about science and technology: the question of limits of inquiry -- Attempts to provide a philosophical overview -- What kind of expansionism do we want? -- Science and values: attempts at historical understanding.

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