Growing explanations: historical perspectives on recent science

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Durham: Duke University Press (2004)
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This collection addresses a post-WWII shift in the hierarchy of scientific explanations, where the highest goal moves from reductionism towards some ...

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Q175.G766 2004

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Chaos, Disorder, and Mixing: A new fin-de-siècle image of science.Amy Dahan Dalmedico
Chaos, disorder, and mixing: A new 'Fin-de-Siècle'.Amy Dahan Dalmedico
Marrying the Premodern to the Postmodern: Computers and organisms after World War II.Evelyn Fox Keller & M. N. Wise
Mirror symmetry: persons, values, and objects.Peter Galison
The Word for World is Computer: Simulating second natures in artificial life.Stefan Helmreich
Fuzzyfying the world: social practices of showing the properties of fuzzy logic.Claude Rosental
Immunology and the enigma of selfhood.Alfred I. Tauber & Mn Norton Wise

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