The Silence in the Library of Natural Science - 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 The Silence in the Library of Natural Science write by . This book was released on 2007. The Silence in the Library of Natural Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Natural Science
Natural Science - 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 Natural Science write by . This book was released on 1899. Natural Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Silences of Science
The Silences of Science - 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 The Silences of Science write by Felicity Mellor. This book was released on 2016-09-13. The Silences of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last half century scholars from a range of disciplines have attempted to theorise silence. Naively we tend to think of silence negatively, as a lack, an emptiness. Yet silence studies shows that silence is more than mere absence. All speech incorporates silence, not only in the gaps between words or the pauses that facilitate turn taking, but in the omissions that result from the necessary selectivity of communicative acts. Thus silence is significant in and of itself; it is a sign that has socially-constructed (albeit context -dependent and ambiguous) meanings. To date, studies of science communication have focussed on what is said rather than what is not said. They have highlighted the content of communication rather than its form, and have largely ignored the gaps, pauses and lacunae that are an essential, and meaningful, part of any communicative act. Both the sociology of science and the history of science have also failed to highlight the varied functions of silence in the practice of science, despite interests in tacit knowledge and cultures of secrecy. Through a range of case studies from historical and contemporary situations, this volume draws attention to the significance of silence, its different qualities and uses, and the nature, function and meaning of silence for science and technology studies.
The Library News
The Library News - 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 The Library News write by Newark Public Library. This book was released on 1903. The Library News available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology
Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology - 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 Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology write by Tamar Szabó Gendler. This book was released on 2013-07-18. Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tamar Gendler draws together in this book a series of essays in which she investigates philosophical methodology, which is now emerging as a central topic of philosophical discussions. Three intertwined themes run through the volume: imagination, intuition and philosophical methodology. Each of the chapters focuses, in one way or another, on how we engage with subject matter that we take to be imaginary. This theme is explored in a wide range of cases, including scientific thought experiments, early childhood pretense, thought experiments concerning personal identity, fictional emotions, self-deception, Gettier cases, and the general relation of conceivability to possibility. Each of the chapters explores, in one way or another, the implications of this for how thought experiments and appeals to intuition can serve as mechanisms for supporting or refuting scientific or philosophical claims. And each of the chapters self-consciously exhibits a particular philosophical methodology: that of drawing both on empirical findings from contemporary psychology, and on classic texts in the philosophical tradition (particularly the work of Aristotle and Hume.) By exploring and exhibiting the fruitfulness of these interactions, Gendler promotes the value of engaging in such cross-disciplinary conversations in illuminating philosophical issues.
