J. M. Ziman, John Ziman

Real Science

What It Is and What It Means

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A systematic, carefully reasoned, but non-technical analysis of the nature and significance of scientific knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780521893107
• ISBN-10: 0521893100
• Artikelnr.: 21849938

Autorenporträt

John Ziman is well known internationally for his many scholarly and popular books on condensed-matter physics and on science, technology and society. He was born in 1925, and was brought up in New Zealand. He took his DPhil at Oxford and lectured at Cambridge before becoming Professor of Theoretical Physics at Bristol in 1964. His research on the electrical properties of metals earned his election to the Royal Society in 1967. After voluntary early retirement from Bristol in 1982 he devoted himself to the systematic analysis and public exposition of various aspects of the social relations of science and technology, on which he is a recognised world authority. He was for many years chairman of the council for Science and Society, and between 1986 and 1991 he headed the Science Policy Support Group. He is currently Convenor of the Epistemology Group.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. A peculiar institution
2. Basically, it's purely academic
3. Academic science
4. New modes of knowledge production
5. Community and communication
6. Universalism and unification
7. Disinterestedness and objectivity
8. Originality and novelty
9. Scepticism and the growth of knowledge
10. What then, can we believe?
Bibliography
Index.