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The Construction of Reality

By: Michael A. Arbib,Mary B. Hesse

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The Construction of Reality

By: Michael A. Arbib,Mary B. Hesse

This book presents an integrated account of how humans 'construct' reality through interaction with the social and physical world around them.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521326893

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The Construction of Reality

By: Michael A. Arbib,Mary B. Hesse

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By: Michael A. Arbib,Mary B. Hesse

This book presents an integrated account of how humans 'construct' reality through interaction with the social and physical world around them.

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Forces and Fields

The Concept of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics

By: Mary B. Hesse

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The Concept of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics

By: Mary B. Hesse

This history of physics focuses on the question, "How do bodies act on one another across space?" The variety of answers illustrates the function of fundamental analogies or models in physics, as well as the role of so-called unobservable entities. Forces and Fields presents an in-depth look at the science of ancient Greece, and it examines the influence of antique philosophy on seventeenth-century thought. Additional topics embrace many elements of modern physics—the empirical basis of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle, and the action-at-a-distance theory of Wheeler and Feynman. The introductory chapter, in which the philosophical view is developed, can be omitted by readers more interested in history. Author Mary B. Hesse examines the use of analogies in primitive scientific explanation, particularly in the works of Aristotle, and contrasts them with latter-day theories such as those of gravitation and relativity. Hesse incorporates studies of the Pre-Socratics initiated by Francis Cornford and continued by contemporary classical historians. Her perspective sheds considerable light on the scientific thinking of antiquity, and it highlights the debt that the seventeenth-century natural philosophers owed to Greek ideas.

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Courier Corporation

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0486442403

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Forces and Fields

The Concept of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics

By: Mary B. Hesse

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The Concept of Action at a Distance in the History of Physics

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From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1950

By: Mary Jo Nye

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From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

Dynamics of Matter and Dynamics of Disciplines, 1800-1950

By: Mary Jo Nye

How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteenth century to Robinson, Ingold, and Pauling in the mid-twentieth century. Using the notion of a disciplinary "identity" analogous to ethnic or national identity, Nye develops a theory of the nature of disciplinary structure and change. She discusses the distinctive character of chemical language and theories and the role of national styles and traditions in building a scientific discipline. Anyone interested in the history of scientific thought will enjoy pondering with her the question of whether chemists of the mid-twentieth century suspected chemical explanation had been reduced to physical laws, just as Newtonian mechanical philosophers had envisioned in the eighteenth century.

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Univ of California Press

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0520913566

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9780520913561

Shared Society or Benign Apartheid?

Understanding Peace-Building in Divided Societies

By: John Nagle,Mary-Alice C. Clancy

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Shared Society or Benign Apartheid?

Understanding Peace-Building in Divided Societies

By: John Nagle,Mary-Alice C. Clancy

This book analyses the role power sharing, social movements, economic regeneration, urban space, memorialisation and symbols play in transforming divided societies into shared peaceful ones. It explains why some projects are counterproductive while others assist peace-building.

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Springer

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0230290639

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9780230290631

The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel

A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society

By: Mary C. Stiner,Ofer Bar-Yosef

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The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel

A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society

By: Mary C. Stiner,Ofer Bar-Yosef

This pathbreaking analysis of changes in human ecology from the early Mousterian period through the end of Paleolithic cultures in the Levant employs a comparative approach to understanding early human behavioral and environmental change, based on a detailed study of 14 bone assemblages from Hayonim Cave and Meged Rockshelter in Israel’s Galilee.

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Harvard University Press

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0873655524

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9780873655521

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The Construction of Reality

The Construction of Reality

The Construction of Reality

The Construction of Reality

Forces and Fields

Forces and Fields

Forces and Fields

Forces and Fields

From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry

Shared Society or Benign Apartheid?

Shared Society or Benign Apartheid?

The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel

The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel

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