History As a Science:The Philosophy ofR.G.Collingwood. . 1981W. J. van der Dussen, History as a Science — The Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood (The Hague, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981), p. 3.VAN DER DUSSEN, J. (2012) History as a science: The philosophy of ...
And to these I would beg permission to add some remarks on the importance of the recognition and endowment, in this country also, of history as a science. Three things are required to make of a body of knowledge a science (1) verifiability of statements; (2) sufficient length and breadth...
This inviting book tells a great adventure story: the history of science. It takes readers to the stars through the telescope, as the sun replaces the earth at the centre of our universe. It delves beneath the surface of the planet, charts the evolution of chemistry's periodic table, ...
Beginning with a small group of philosophers in ancient Greece and ending with nano-technology, A History of Science in Society covers a vast sweep of time and subject matter. Among the many topics discussed are issues such as intellectual competition, gender and class, the economic exploitation ...
Science Studies and the History of Science Lorraine Daston Introduction: Hard-hearted Adamant The current relation between science studies and the history of science brings to mind the opening scenes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (or, minus the fairies, the high school comedy of your choice): ...
Social science, any branch of academic study or science that deals with human behavior in its social and cultural aspects. Usually included within the social sciences are cultural (or social) anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science, and ec
The yinyang principle can be applied to agenetic diseasesuch as inheritedbreast cancerand its associatedgenesBRCA1andBRCA2. According to this principle ofnatural law, if either of these genes is activated, somewhere in another part of thegenetic codethere also exists a gene to fix the action ...
The passive part of the nervous tissue has been further conceptualised by Rudolf Virchow, who introduced the notion of neuroglia as a connective tissue of the brain and the spinal cord. During the second half of the 19th century, the cellular architecture of the brain was been extensively ...
A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor Why Was Zora Neale Hurston So Obsessed With the Biblical Villain Herod the Great?
ornithology has developed as a science -- in the field, in the laboratory, and in the universities -- and birds have played their part in pushing forward the frontiers of biological knowledge. Peter Bircham looks at the history of British ornithology, spanning a millennium and exploring along ...