Growing explanations: historical perspectives on recent science

Introduction : dynamics all the way up / M. Norton Wise -- Mirror symmetry : persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison -- Chaos, disorder, and mixing : a new fin-de-siècle image of science? / Amy Dahan Dalmedico -- Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of René Thom : topology, morphogene...

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Weitere Verfasser: Wise, M. Norton (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2004
Schriftenreihe:Science and cultural theory
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : dynamics all the way up / M. Norton Wise -- Mirror symmetry : persons, values, and objects / Peter Galison -- Chaos, disorder, and mixing : a new fin-de-siècle image of science? / Amy Dahan Dalmedico -- Forms of explanation in the catastrophe theory of René Thom : topology, morphogenesis, and structuralism / David Aubin -- From Boeing to Berkeley : civil engineers, the cold war, and the origins of finite element analysis / Ann Johnson -- Fuzzyfying the world : social practices of showing the properties of fuzzy logic / Claude Rosental -- Marrying the premodern to the postmodern : computers and organisms after World War II / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Immunology and the enigma of selfhood / Alfred I. Tauber -- Immunology and AIDS : growing explanations and developing instruments / Ilana Löwy -- Artificial life support : some nodes in the Alife ribotype / Richard Doyle -- The word for world is computer : simulating second natures in artificial life / Stefan Helmreich -- Constructing and explaining emergence in artificial life : on paradigms, ontodefinitions, and general knowledge in biology / Claus Emmeche
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:vi, 346 p ill 25 cm
ISBN:9780822390084
0822390086

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