This study engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. It reveals how the ever-increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions. At the beginning of this century, physics was usually done by a lone resear...(展开全部)

This study engages with the impact of modern technology on experimental physicists. It reveals how the ever-increasing scale and complexity of apparatus has distanced physicists from the very science which drew them into experimenting, and has fragmented microphysics into different technical traditions. At the beginning of this century, physics was usually done by a lone resear...(展开全部)

Almost three tons of concrete are produced each year for every person on the planet; only water is consumed more per head of population. Now used almost universally in modern construction, concrete polarizes opinion: provoking intense loathing and even nausea in some, it is regarded by others with a messianic passion. Concrete and Culture breaks new ground by studying concrete'...(展开全部)

Drawing on a range of examples from Western and developing cultures, this book offers a re-reading of the contemporary society as the product of both individual and collective identity and behaviour. Marxist interpretations of the expansion in the range and number of material goods have tended to view people as estranged from the objects they produce, while massive consumption ...(展开全部)

Drawing on a range of examples from Western and developing cultures, this book offers a re-reading of the contemporary society as the product of both individual and collective identity and behaviour. Marxist interpretations of the expansion in the range and number of material goods have tended to view people as estranged from the objects they produce, while massive consumption ...(展开全部)

Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, shows that the histories of science and art are not simply histories of concepts or styles, but histories of the making and using of...(展开全部)

“Making” and “knowing” have generally been viewed as belonging to different types and orders of knowledge. “Craft” and “making” have been associated with how-to information, oriented to a particular situation or product, often informal and tacit, while “knowing” has been related to theoretical, propositional, and abstract knowledge including natural science. Although craftspeop...(展开全部)

Mill's Logic, first published in 1843, became an instant cult book, and firmly established Mill as the leader of the empirical school of logic. A System of Logic is the first major installment of his comprehensive restatement of an empiricist and utilitarian position. It begins the attack on "intuitionism" which Mill carried on throughout his life, and makes plain his belief th...(展开全部)

约翰斯图亚特穆勒（下称小穆勒）是十九世纪的顶尖思想家之一，同时堪称最伟大的通才，没有之一。小穆勒的研究领域横跨自然科学和社会科学，上至哲学、逻辑学，下至经济学、政治学、伦理学，就研究的广度而论，只需上仰古希腊大哲亚里士多德一人而已。 其实，小穆勒看似经天纬地的研究并非真正的四分五散，而是其来有自、一以贯之。本书《逻辑体系》既是他不竭的智慧之源，也是贯穿始终的方法论之线。当然，这本书也是小穆勒皓首穷经之作，前后历时42年（1830－1872年），八易其稿（正式版本），洋洋洒洒千余页、120万字，堪称当时逻辑学领域的扛鼎巨作。 《逻辑体系》这本巨著的价值在于，将洛克、贝克莱、休谟一脉相承的经验主义应用于逻辑学领域，特别是归纳逻辑，使得经验主义哲学开始真正成为其他科学、特别是社会科学的根本方法论。小穆勒本人正是这方面的践行者和受益者。哲学的贯通使他在经济学...(展开全部)

Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with another captivating portrait through the experience of things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, recei...(展开全部)