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The Material Theory of Induction

Par (auteur) John D. Norton
Catégories: Histoire des sciences
Séries: BSPS Open

The burden of a theory of inductive inference is to determine which inductive inferences are good and why they are so. This book argues against the assumption that inductive inference can be accommodated ...

Changing Tides

In Changing Tides, Alejandro Frid, an ecologist working with Indigenous people, argues that a merger of scientific perspectives and Indigenous knowledge might just help us change the story we tell ourselves ...

Kwaday Dan Tsinchi

Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found is a comprehensive and collaborative account that interweaves scientific analysis and cultural knowledge to describe a life that ended almost ...

Articulating Dinosaurs

Par (auteur) Brian Noble
Catégories: Histoire des sciences

In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how specimens and humans create dinosaurs together. He examines the resurrection of two of the most iconic and gendered dinosaurs: ...

Separate Beds

Par (auteur) Maureen K. Lux
Catégories: Histoire des sciences

“Canada has a painful history of racially segregated hospitals that were intended to isolate and institutionalize Aboriginal people seen as a menace and danger to the nation. Separate Beds is a sophisticated, ...

Bold Scientists

Par (auteur) Michael Riordon
Catégories: Philosophie des sciences

As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it seems ...

Pain and Prejudice

Par (auteur) Karen Messing
Catégories: Philosophie des sciences

In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in ...

Ideas on the Nature of Science

Édité par David Cayley
Catégories: Philosophie des sciences

If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything ...