Innocent Experiments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innocent Experiments write by Rebecca Onion. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Innocent Experiments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the 1950s to the digital age, Americans have pushed their children to live science-minded lives, cementing scientific discovery and youthful curiosity as inseparable ideals. In this multifaceted work, historian Rebecca Onion examines the rise of informal children's science education in the twentieth century, from the proliferation of home chemistry sets after World War I to the century-long boom in child-centered science museums. Onion looks at how the United States has increasingly focused its energies over the last century into producing young scientists outside of the classroom. She shows that although Americans profess to believe that success in the sciences is synonymous with good citizenship, this idea is deeply complicated in an era when scientific data is hotly contested and many Americans have a conflicted view of science itself. These contradictions, Onion explains, can be understood by examining the histories of popular science and the development of ideas about American childhood. She shows how the idealized concept of "science" has moved through the public consciousness and how the drive to make child scientists has deeply influenced American culture.
Innocent Experiments
Innocent Experiments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innocent Experiments write by Thomas Maurice King. This book was released on 2018. Innocent Experiments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Life
Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life write by . This book was released on 1910. Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Thought Experiments
Thought Experiments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thought Experiments write by Nenad Miscevic. This book was released on 2021-09-29. Thought Experiments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a readable introduction to the main aspects of thought experimenting in philosophy and science (together with related imaginative activities in mathematics and linguistics). It presents the main options in understanding thought experiments, from empiricism to Platonism, and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. However, it also provides some original perspectives on the topic. Firstly, it provides a new definition and analysis of thought experimenting that brings it closer to laboratory experimenting. Secondly, it develops the author’s earlier theory of “mental modelling”, proposed some decades ago by him, and some other researchers in the field as the crucial procedure in thought experimenting. The mental modelling approach links work with thought experimenting to cognitive science and to research on mental simulation which is a hot topic in present-day research. Thirdly, it proposes a principled way to respond to criticism of thought experimenting by “experimental philosophers” as they have been dominating the present-day debates. The response suggests a possible ameliorative, self-help project for thought experimenting. Finally, the book provides a way to systematize the history of important thought experiments in science and philosophy and thus connects, in an original way, the systematic investigation of experimenting to the historical work of famous thought experiments. It is of interest to scholars interested in history of ideas and philosophy of science.
A Nation Betrayed
A Nation Betrayed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Nation Betrayed write by Carol Rutz. This book was released on 2001. A Nation Betrayed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
