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  1. The intelligibility of nature
    how science makes sense of the world
    Author: Dear, Peter
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226139484; 0226139506; 9780226139487; 9780226139500
    Series: Science.culture
    Subjects: SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy of nature; Reasoning; Science / Methodology; Science / Philosophy; Geschichte; Naturwissenschaft; Philosophie; Science; Science; Reasoning; Philosophy of nature; Naturverständnis; Hermeneutik; Naturphilosophie; Wissenschaftsphilosophie; Naturwissenschaften
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 242 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-233) and index

    Introduction : science as natural philosophy, science as instrumentality -- The mechanical universe from Galileo to Newton -- A place for everything : the classification of the world -- The chemical revolution thwarted by atoms -- Design and disorder : the origin of species -- Dynamical explanation : the aether and Victorian machines -- How to understand nature? : Einstein, Bohr, and the quantum universe -- Conclusion : making sense in science
  2. Science, reason, and rhetoric
    Published: [1995]; © 1995
    Publisher:  University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Universitätsverlag Konstanz

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780822970415; 0822970414; 0822939126; 9780822939122; 9780822961963; 0822961962
    Series: Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
    Subjects: SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects; PHILOSOPHY / General; Rationalism; Rhetoric / Philosophy; Science / Methodology; Science / Philosophy; Wetenschapsfilosofie; Retorica; Naturwissenschaften; Rhetorik; Wissenschaft; Naturwissenschaft; Philosophie; Rhetorik; Wissenschaftstheorie; Array; Wissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften; Rhetorik
    Scope: 1 online resource (xix, 322 pages), illustrations
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    Science and the many faces of rhetoric / Stephen Toulmin -- Rhetoric and rationality in William Harvey's De Motu Cordis / Gerald J. Massey -- The cognitive functions of scientific rhetoric / Philip Kitcher -- Comment / Merrilee H. Salmon -- How to tell the dancer from the dance : limits and proportions in argument about the nature of science / J.E. McGuire and Trevor Melia -- The strong program in the rhetoric of science / Steve Fuller -- Producing sunspots on an iron pan : Galileo's scientific discourse / R. Feldhay -- Comment : A new way of seeing Galileo's sunspots (and new ways to talk too) / Peter Machamer -- Rhetoric and the cold fusion controversy : from the chemists' Woodstock to the physicists' Altamont / Trevor J. Pinch -- Comment / H. Krips -- American intransigence : the rejection of continental drift in the great debates of the 1920s / Robert P. Newman -- Topics, tropes, and tradition : Darwin's reinvention and subversion of the argument to design / John Angus Campbell -- Comment : Darwin's recapitulation / James G. Lennox -- Rhetoric in the context of scientific rationality / John Lyne -- Comment : Metaphors, rhetoric, and science / Michael Bradie -- Rhetoric, ideology, and desire in von Neumann's Gründlagen / H. Krips -- Eddington and the idiom of modernism / Gillian Beer -- Comment : Standing on the threshold / Trevor Melia