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567 results in History of science

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Darwin's Philosophy of Emotion
  • Trip Glazer
  • Published online:
    18 December 2025
    Print publication:
    22 January 2026
  • Charles Darwin is known as a biologist, geologist, and naturalist, but he was also a philosopher. This book uncovers Darwin's forgotten philosophical theory of emotion, which combines earlier associationist theories with his theory of evolution. The British associationists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries argued that the mind operates primarily through the association of ideas, and that emotions are strings of thoughts, feelings, and outward expressions, connected by habit and association. Charles Darwin's early notebooks on emotion reveal a keen interest in associationist philosophy. This book shows that one of his final works, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), is a work of associationist philosophy, and analyzes Darwin's revolutionary idea: that if the associations that produce emotions can be inherited, then the theory of evolution can explain how emotions first occurred in simpler organisms and then developed and were compounded into the complex experiences humans have today.

Science Societies
  • Resources for Life in a Technoscientific World
  • Sarah R. Davies
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    16 April 2025
    Print publication:
    26 November 2024
  • Scientific and technical expertise, now largely understood as the ultimate source of authoritative knowledge, are vital to how our societies operate. This punchy introduction to thinking about science-society relations draws on research and concepts to argue for the importance of knowing.

Genetic Science and New Digital Technologies
  • Science and Technology Studies and Health Praxis
  • Edited by Tina Sikka
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    28 March 2024
    Print publication:
    26 October 2023
  • Drawing from a range of disciplines and case studies, this volume examines the latest health and genetic technologies, explores the representation, communication, and internalization of health knowledge and reveals the economic and cultural inequalities that result from these technologies.

Ecological Reparation
  • Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict
  • Edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Maddalena Tacchetti
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    28 March 2024
    Print publication:
    01 December 2023
  • How do we engage with the threat of social and environmental degradation while creating and maintaining liveable and just worlds? Researchers from diverse backgrounds unpack this question through a series of original and committed contributions to this wide-ranging volume.

Race and Socio-Cultural Inclusion in Science Communication
  • Innovation, Decolonisation, and Transformation
  • Edited by Elizabeth Rasekoala
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    24 January 2024
    Print publication:
    31 July 2023
  • This radical volume disrupts circular debates around diversity, equity, and inclusion in science communication to address the gaps in the field. Bringing to the fore marginalised voices of so-called 'racialised minorities', and those from Global South regions, it interrogates the global footprint of the science communication enterprise.

Science and Democracy
  • A Science and Technology Studies Approach
  • Linda Soneryd, Göran Sundqvist
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    23 January 2024
    Print publication:
    29 September 2023
  • An invaluable resource to help understand the role of scientific knowledge in governance, societal developments and democracy, this accessible book introduces students to perspectives from the field of science and technology studies.

Expertise in Crisis
  • The Ideological Contours of Public Scientific Controversies
  • David S. Caudill
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    18 January 2024
    Print publication:
    31 January 2023
  • As the crisis of expertise continues to be a global issue, this book shows that it is not a 'scientific' controversy, but an ideological dispute with believers on both sides. If the advocates of consensus science acknowledge the uncertainties of even the best science, it is possible to open a pathway towards communication between world views.

The Life of a Number
  • Measurement, Meaning and the Media
  • B. T. Lawson
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    18 January 2024
    Print publication:
    28 April 2023
  • Drawing on case studies, this book examines how politicians, academics and journalists gave meaning to data during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lawson sheds light on the distinct nature of the pandemic that led to the increased politicization of data and how it permanently changed the way we view health and society more broadly.

Queering Science Communication
  • Representations, Theory, and Practice
  • Edited by Lindy A. Orthia, Tara Roberson
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    18 January 2024
    Print publication:
    28 April 2023
  • Written by leading experts, this collection examines representations of queerness in popular science and media, asks what it means for the field to 'queer' science communication theories and research agendas and offers practical examples and case studies for fostering radical inclusivity and equity in the science communication field.

Understanding Charles Darwin
  • Erik L. Peterson
  • Published online:
    31 August 2023
    Print publication:
    14 September 2023
  • The legend of Charles Darwin has never been more alive or more potent, but by virtue of this, his legacy has become susceptible to myths and misunderstandings. Understanding Charles Darwin examines key questions such as what did Darwin's work change about the world? In what ways is 'Darwinism' reflective of Darwin's own views? What problems were left unsolved? In our elevation of Darwin to this iconic status, have we neglected to recognise the work of other scientists? The book also examines Darwin's struggle with his religious beliefs, considering his findings, and whether he was truly an atheist. In this engaging account, Peterson paints an intimate portrait of Darwin from his own words in private correspondence and journals. The result is the Darwin you never knew.

Understanding Purpose
  • Kant and the Philosophy of Biology
  • Edited by Philippe Huneman
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 March 2023
    Print publication:
    15 July 2007
  • A collection of essays investigating key historical and scientific questions relating to the concept of natural purpose in Kant's philosophy of biology.

Being Human during COVID-19

The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages
  • Edited by Clare Frances Monagle
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    16 July 2022
    Print publication:
    21 September 2021
  • Constant J. Mews's groundbreaking work reveals the wide world of medieval letters. Looking beyond the cathedral and the cloister for his investigations, and taking a broad view of intellectual practice in the Middle Ages, Mews demands that we expand our horizons as we explore the history of ideas. Alongside his cutting-edge work on Abelard, he has been a leader in the study of medieval women writers, paying heed to Hildegard and Heloise in particular. Mews has also expanded our knowledge of medieval music, and its theoretical foundations. In Mews' Middle Ages, the world of ideas always belongs to a larger world: one that is cultural, gendered and politicized. The essays in this volume pay tribute to Constant, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the intellectual history of the medieval West.

Shipwreck Hauntography
  • Underwater Ruins and the Uncanny
  • Sara Rich
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    16 July 2022
    Print publication:
    16 September 2021
  • Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book represents a radical departure from traditional scholarship on maritime archaeology. Shipwreck Hauntography asserts that nautical archaeology bears the legacy of Early Modern theological imperialism, most evident through the savior-scholar model that resurrects - physically or virtually - ships from wrecks. Instead of construing shipwrecks as dead, awaiting resurrection from the seafloor, they are presented as vibrant if not recalcitrant objects, having shaken off anthropogenesis through varying stages of ruination. Sara Rich illustrates this anarchic condition with 'hauntographs' of five Age of 'Discovery' shipwrecks, each of which elucidates the wonder of failure and finitude, alongside an intimate brush with the eerie, horrific, and uncanny.

After Science and Religion
  • Fresh Perspectives from Philosophy and Theology
  • Edited by Peter Harrison, John Milbank
  • Published online:
    05 May 2022
    Print publication:
    19 May 2022
  • The popular field of 'science and religion' is a lively and well-established area. It is however a domain which has long been characterised by certain traits. In the first place, it tends towards an adversarial dialectic in which the separate disciplines, now conjoined, are forever locked in a kind of mortal combat. Secondly, 'science and religion' has a tendency towards disentanglement, where 'science' does one sort of thing and 'religion' another. And thirdly, the duo are frequently pushed towards some sort of attempted synthesis, wherein their aims either coincide or else are brought more closely together. In attempting something fresh, and different, this volume tries to move beyond tried and tested tropes. Bringing philosophy and theology to the fore in a way rarely attempted before, the book shows how fruitful new conversations between science and religion can at last move beyond the increasingly tired options of either conflict or dialogue.

The Imposter as Social Theory
  • Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans
  • Edited by Steve Woolgar, Else Vogel, David Moats, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    22 December 2021
    Print publication:
    26 May 2021
  • Edited by expert scholars, this volume explores the 'imposter' through empirical cases, including click farms, bikers, business leaders and fraudulent scientists, providing insights into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge.

Darwin's Argument by Analogy
  • From Artificial to Natural Selection
  • Roger M. White, M. J. S. Hodge, Gregory Radick
  • Published online:
    21 October 2021
    Print publication:
    04 November 2021
  • In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. Drawing on new insights into the history of analogical argumentation from the ancient Greeks onward, as well as on in-depth studies of Darwin's public and private writings, this book offers an original perspective on Darwin's argument, restoring to view the intellectual traditions which Darwin took for granted in arguing as he did. From this perspective come new appreciations not only of Darwin's argument but of the metaphors based on it, the range of wider traditions the argument touched upon, and its legacies for science after the Origin.

Slow Computing
  • Why We Need Balanced Digital Lives
  • Rob Kitchin, Alistair Fraser
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    12 March 2021
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020
  • Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication, travel and play. But they are also accelerating and fragmenting our lives affecting our well-being and exposing us to extensive data extraction and profiling that helps determine our life chances. Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to create new opportunities for people to practice 'slow computing', but it quickly became clear that it was as difficult, if not more so, than during normal times. Is it then possible to experience the joy and benefits of computing, but to do so in a way that asserts individual and collective autonomy over our time and data? Drawing on the ideas of the 'slow movement', Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of living digital lives.

Robert Musil and the Question of Science
  • Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Problem of the Two Cultures
  • Tim Mehigan
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 April 2020
    Print publication:
    15 April 2020
  • A major new study of Robert Musil by one of the world's leading Musil scholars. Musil's extraordinary works, the study reveals, emerged from the problem of the two cultures.

The Grand Designers
  • The Evolution of the Airplane in the 20th Century
  • John D. Anderson Jr
  • Published online:
    27 April 2018
    Print publication:
    22 March 2018
  • The airplane has experienced phenomenal advancement in the twentieth century, changing at an exponential rate from the Wright brothers to the present day. In this ground breaking work based on new research, Dr John D. Anderson, Jr, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum, analyzes the historical development of the conceptual design process of the airplane. He aims to answer the question of whether airplane advancement has been driven by a parallel advancement in the intellectual methodology of conceptual airplane design. In doing so, Anderson identifies and examines six case histories of 'grand designers' in this field, and challenges some of the preconceived notions of how the intellectual methodology of conceptual airplane design advanced. Filled with over one hundred illustrations which bring his words to life, Anderson unfolds the lives and thoughts of these grand designers.

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