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20These are the abstracts of papers for the conference, History Unveiled Science Unfettered: A Conference in Celebration of James E. McGuire University of Pittsburgh, January 19, 2002.
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20Carolingian Biblical Culture John J. CONTRENI Qui sim nosse uolens, scito Bibliotheca dicor El ueteris legis ius ueho siue nouae. Ne me sperne, precor, ...
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34The Popper—Carnap controversyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 7 (1): 63-85. 1976.
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16Introducing quantum theoryTotem Books. 1996.Quantum theory is one of science's most thrilling, challenging and even mysterious areas. Scientists such as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger uncovered bizarre paradoxes in the early 20th century that seemed to destroy the fundamental assumptions of 'classical physics' - the basic laws we are taught in school. Notoriously difficult, quantum theory is nonetheless an amazing and inspiring intellectual adventure, explained here with patience, wit and clarity.
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12Eighteenth-Century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise. Frederic Lawrence HolmesIsis 82 (2): 382-382. 1991.
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43The Myth of the Framework. In Defense of Science and Rationality (review)Teaching Philosophy 18 (4): 388-390. 1995.
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14Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age (review)Annals of Science 67 (4): 581-583. 2010.No abstract
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29Positivism, whiggism, and the Chemical Revolution: A study in the historiography of chemistryHistory of Science 35 (107): 1-33. 1997.
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65A "revolutionary" philosophy of science: Feyerabend and the degeneration of critical rationalism into sceptical fallibilismPhilosophy of Science 42 (1): 49-66. 1975.The works of Paul K. Feyerabend, Norwood Russell Hanson and Thomas S. Kuhn have come to occupy a central place in the annals of contemporary philosophy of science. Some of their contemporaries,, tend to regard them as the vanguard of a new “revolutionary” intellectual movement. Reacting against the views of their positivist predecessors, they embrace and propagate the idea that “pervasive presuppositions” are fundamental to scientific investigations. Thus, Feyerabend thinks that, “... scientific…Read more
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Oxygen and the conversion of future foodstock. Third BOC Priestley ConferenceEnlightenment and Dissent 4 119-121. 1985.
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1Enlightenment and dissent in science: Joseph Priestley and the limits of theoretical reasoningEnlightenment and Dissent 2 47-67. 1983.
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38Victor D. Boantza: "Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution" (review)Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry 20 (1): 193-196. 2014.Book Review of Victor D. Boantza: Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution, Ashgate 2013.
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Lavoisier, Priestley and the Philosophes: Epistemic and Linguistic Dimensions to the Chemical RevolutionLumen: Selected Proceedings From the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 8 91-98. 1989.
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54Bibliography of the Philosophy of Science, 1945-1981 (review)Teaching Philosophy 7 (4): 372-373. 1984.
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