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Author:   Various
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9780415593472

ISBN 10:   0415593476
Pages:   8768
Publication Date:   15 August 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Evolution and Human Behaviour 2. Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory 3. Continuous Creation 4. Glimpsing Reality 5. Frames of Meaning 6. Darwin and the Naked Lady 7. Science, Industry and Society 8. British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century 9. British Scientists of the Twentieth Century 10. Empiricism, Explanation and Rationality 11. Evidence and Meaning 12. The Social Impact of Modern Biology 13. Boundaries of the Universe 14. The Scientific Revolution 15. The Common Scientist in the Seventeenth Century 16. Cooke and Wheatstone 17. Soviet Marxism and Natural Science 18. Objectivity, Science and Society 19. Experience and Theory 20. The Astronomical Revolution 21. Evolutionary Theory and Christian Belief 22. Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought 23. Philosophy of Science and Sociology 24. Science, Technology and Economic Growth in the Eighteenth Century 25. The Royal Society: Concept and Creation 26. From Magic to Science: Francis Bacon 27. Science and Religion 28. Method in the Physical Sciences 29. Philosophy and Scientific Realism 30. Science and ESP 31. Evidence and Explanation in Social Science 32. Beyond Empiricism 33. Foundations of Inference in Natural Science 34. Explanation and Understanding

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