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Advice for a Young Investigator
| Advice for a Young Investigator |
| Autore | Ramon Y. Cajal Santiago |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, : MIT Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 150 pages |
| Disciplina | 507.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SwansonNeely |
| Soggetto topico |
Research
Scientists |
| Soggetto non controllato |
NEUROSCIENCE/General
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| ISBN |
0-262-25003-9
0-262-28206-2 0-585-03241-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778637703321 |
Ramon Y. Cajal Santiago
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| Cambridge, : MIT Press, 1999 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe / / John Krige
| American hegemony and the postwar reconstruction of science in Europe / / John Krige |
| Autore | Krige John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509.4/09045 |
| Collana | Transformations |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Europe - History - 20th century
Technology - Europe - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
HUMANITIES/History SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
| ISBN |
1-282-09709-1
9786612097096 0-262-27763-8 1-4294-7759-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777796803321 |
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Krige John
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The artificial and the natural : an evolving polarity / / edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman
| The artificial and the natural : an evolving polarity / / edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and William R. Newman |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
| Disciplina | 501 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Bensaude-VincentBernadette
NewmanWilliam R. <1955-> |
| Collana | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - Europe - History
Science - Philosophy - History Philosophy, European - History Science, Medieval |
| Soggetto non controllato | SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| ISBN |
0-262-30923-8
1-282-09911-6 9786612099113 0-262-26817-5 1-4356-0600-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 10 Spinoza on the Natural and the Artificial11 Eighteenth-Century Wetware; 12 Overtaking Nature? The Changing Scope of Organic Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century; 13 Reconfiguring Nature through Syntheses: From Plastics to Biomimetics; 14 Concluding Comments; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778104103321 |
| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater
| Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113 |
| Collana | Topics in 8contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Naturalism
Science - Philosophy Philosophy of nature Metaphysics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| ISBN |
1-283-32175-0
9786613321756 0-262-29878-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction : Lessons from the Scientific Butchery; 1 Carving Nature at Its Joints; 2 Natural Kinds and Inductive Inference; 3 The Question of Essentialism; 4 Applications; 5 The Essays; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Induction, Samples, and Kinds; 1 Introduction; 2 Goodman's Problem and Naturalness Constraints; 3 A Second Form of Inference; 4 A Nominalist Challenge; 5 A Discussion of Cases; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 3. It Takes More Than All Kinds to Make a World; 1 Introduction
2 Distinguishing the Laws by Their Stability3 Natural Necessity; 4 The Laws Form a System; 5 How Some Laws Can Transcend Others; 6 Natural Properties; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals; 1 Lange on Laws; 2 Lange on Kinds; 3 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5. Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?; I; II; III; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Para-Natural Kinds; Extending Plato's Metaphor; Contrast with Artifacts; Nomic Legacies; Natural Kind or Para-Natural Kind?; Kripke Tests; Putnam Tests; Back-up Strategy Second Order Para-Natural KindsHistorical Controversy; Some Parting Imagery; Summary of Three Theses; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7. Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism; 1 Natural vs. Artificial Boundaries; 2 Boundaries and Things; 3 From Boundaries to Things; 4 Conventionalism and Realism; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms; 1 Introduction; 2 Species Concepts; 3 Species Pluralism; 4 Realism in General; 5 Ereshefsky versus Kitcher; 6 The Higher Categories; 7 Conclusions; Notes; References Chapter 9. Three Ways of Resisting Essentialism about Natural Kinds1 Essentialism about Natural Kinds; 2 Questioning the First Tenet: All and Only the Members of a Kind Have a Common Essence; 3 Questioning the First Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; 4 Questioning the Second Tenet: Causal Responsibility; 5 Questioning the Third Tenet: Explanatory Relevance; 6 Questioning the Third Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 10. Arthritis and Nature's Joints; 1 Disease Kinds and Essences 2 Why Treat Disease Kinds as Natural Kinds?3 Two Approaches to Natural Kinds; 4 What Is a Disease?; 5 Natural Disease Kinds; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 11. Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals; 1 Introduction; 2 The Scientists' Problem, and Two Strategies for Solving It; 3 Why One-Off Models of Evolving Biological Populations Make Sense; 4 An Illustrative Case; 5 Mistakes Compounded; 6 Final Considerations; Notes; References; Chapter 12. Similarity and Species Concepts; 1 Introduction; 2 Similarity or Sameness as the Basis of Concepts and Kinds 3 Realist Species Conceptions |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457768003321 |
| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] | ||
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Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater
| Carving nature at its joints : natural kinds in metaphysics and science / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 113 |
| Collana | Topics in 8contemporary philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Naturalism
Science - Philosophy Philosophy of nature Metaphysics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| ISBN |
1-283-32175-0
9786613321756 0-262-29878-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction : Lessons from the Scientific Butchery; 1 Carving Nature at Its Joints; 2 Natural Kinds and Inductive Inference; 3 The Question of Essentialism; 4 Applications; 5 The Essays; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Induction, Samples, and Kinds; 1 Introduction; 2 Goodman's Problem and Naturalness Constraints; 3 A Second Form of Inference; 4 A Nominalist Challenge; 5 A Discussion of Cases; 6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 3. It Takes More Than All Kinds to Make a World; 1 Introduction
2 Distinguishing the Laws by Their Stability3 Natural Necessity; 4 The Laws Form a System; 5 How Some Laws Can Transcend Others; 6 Natural Properties; Notes; References; Chapter 4. Lange and Laws, Kinds, and Counterfactuals; 1 Lange on Laws; 2 Lange on Kinds; 3 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5. Are Fundamental Laws Necessary or Contingent?; I; II; III; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Para-Natural Kinds; Extending Plato's Metaphor; Contrast with Artifacts; Nomic Legacies; Natural Kind or Para-Natural Kind?; Kripke Tests; Putnam Tests; Back-up Strategy Second Order Para-Natural KindsHistorical Controversy; Some Parting Imagery; Summary of Three Theses; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 7. Boundaries, Conventions, and Realism; 1 Natural vs. Artificial Boundaries; 2 Boundaries and Things; 3 From Boundaries to Things; 4 Conventionalism and Realism; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms; 1 Introduction; 2 Species Concepts; 3 Species Pluralism; 4 Realism in General; 5 Ereshefsky versus Kitcher; 6 The Higher Categories; 7 Conclusions; Notes; References Chapter 9. Three Ways of Resisting Essentialism about Natural Kinds1 Essentialism about Natural Kinds; 2 Questioning the First Tenet: All and Only the Members of a Kind Have a Common Essence; 3 Questioning the First Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; 4 Questioning the Second Tenet: Causal Responsibility; 5 Questioning the Third Tenet: Explanatory Relevance; 6 Questioning the Third Tenet of Kind-Essentialism in the Biological Domain; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 10. Arthritis and Nature's Joints; 1 Disease Kinds and Essences 2 Why Treat Disease Kinds as Natural Kinds?3 Two Approaches to Natural Kinds; 4 What Is a Disease?; 5 Natural Disease Kinds; 6 Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 11. Predicting Populations by Modeling Individuals; 1 Introduction; 2 The Scientists' Problem, and Two Strategies for Solving It; 3 Why One-Off Models of Evolving Biological Populations Make Sense; 4 An Illustrative Case; 5 Mistakes Compounded; 6 Final Considerations; Notes; References; Chapter 12. Similarity and Species Concepts; 1 Introduction; 2 Similarity or Sameness as the Basis of Concepts and Kinds 3 Realist Species Conceptions |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781929703321 |
| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2011] | ||
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Control : digitality as cultural logic / / Seb Franklin
| Control : digitality as cultural logic / / Seb Franklin |
| Autore | Franklin Seb <1982-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxii, 211 pages) |
| Disciplina | 303.48/33 |
| Collana | Leonardo |
| Soggetto topico |
Information technology - Social aspects
Cybernetics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media History
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science CULTURAL STUDIES/Critical Theory |
| ISBN |
0-262-33114-4
0-262-33113-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Digitality without computers -- Introduction: the computer as metaphor -- Control -- Cybernetics, or the digitization of the social -- Digitality as cultural logic -- On representation -- Text before images, or the logic of digital worlds -- From narrated subjects to programmable objects -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , [2015] | ||
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Emil du Bois-Reymond : neuroscience, self, and society in nineteenth-century Germany / / Gabriel Finkelstein
| Emil du Bois-Reymond : neuroscience, self, and society in nineteenth-century Germany / / Gabriel Finkelstein |
| Autore | Finkelstein Gabriel Ward |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (381 p.) |
| Disciplina |
612.8092
B |
| Collana | Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - Philosophy - History - 19th century
Physiology, Experimental - History - 19th century Physiologists - Germany |
| Soggetto non controllato |
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography
NEUROSCIENCE/General SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
| ISBN |
0-262-31485-1
0-262-31484-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Beginnings; 1 Childhood; 2 Youth; 3 Apprenticeship; II Experiments; 4 Science; 5 Revolution; 6 Paris; III Life; 7 Love; 8 Marriage and Career; 9 Public and Private; IV Fame; 10 Politics and History; 11 Goethe and Darwin; 12 Limits; Notes; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790791303321 |
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Finkelstein Gabriel Ward
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2013] | ||
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From embryology to evo-devo : a history of developmental evolution / / edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein
| From embryology to evo-devo : a history of developmental evolution / / edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (579 p.) |
| Disciplina | 571.809 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
LaubichlerManfred Dietrich
MaienscheinJane |
| Collana | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Developmental biology - History
Evolution (Biology) - History Comparative embryology - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-31164-X
1-282-09830-6 0-262-27797-2 9786612098307 1-4294-6565-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; 1 - Introduction; 2 - Does History Recapitulate Itself? Epistemological Reflections on the Origins of Evolutionary Developmental Biology; I - ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY BIOLOGY; 3 - Living with the Biogenetic Law: A Reappraisal; 4 - William Bateson's Physicalist Ideas; 5 - To Evo-Devo Through Cells, Embryos, and Morphogenesis; 6 - A Century of Evo-Devo: The Dialectics of Analysis and Synthesis in Twentieth-Century Life Science; 7 - The Cell as the Basis for Heredity, Development, and Evolution: Richard Goldschmidt's Program of Physiological Genetics
II - ROOTS AND PROBLEMS OF EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY8 - The Relations Between Comparative Embryology, Morphology, and Systematics: An American Perspective; 9 - Morphological and Paleontological Perspectives for a History of Evo-Devo; 10 - Echoes of Haeckel? Reentrenching Development in Evolution; 11 - Fate Maps, Gene Expression Maps, and the Evidentiary Structure of Evolutionary Developmental Biology; 12 - Tracking Organic Processes: Representations and Research Styles in Classical Embryology and Genetics; 13 - The Juncture of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology 14 - Tapping Many Sources: The Adventitious Roots of Evo-Devo in the Nineteenth Century 15 - Six Memos for Evo-Devo; 16 - The Current State and the Future of Developmental Evolution; About the Authors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777834403321 |
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The genealogy of a gene : patents, HIV/AIDS, and race / / Myles W. Jackson
| The genealogy of a gene : patents, HIV/AIDS, and race / / Myles W. Jackson |
| Autore | Jackson Myles W. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Disciplina | 362.19697/920072 |
| Collana | Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Genes
Genes - Patents Genetic genealogy HIV (Viruses) Human population genetics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law |
| ISBN |
0-262-32720-1
0-262-53378-2 0-262-32719-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | The CCR5 story -- The CCR5 patent(s) -- Gene patenting and the product-of-nature doctrine -- CCR5 and intellectual property law -- The European response to the CCR5 patent -- CCR5 and HIV/AIDS diagnostics and therapeutics -- Race, place, and pathogens -- Race, difference, and genes -- Epilogue: the end of an error? |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796929503321 |
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Jackson Myles W.
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2015] | ||
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H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the origins of German Darwinism : a study in translation and transformation / / Sander Gliboff
| H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the origins of German Darwinism : a study in translation and transformation / / Sander Gliboff |
| Autore | Gliboff Sander |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.80943 |
| Collana | Transformations |
| Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) - Germany - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
HUMANITIES/Literature & Criticism |
| ISBN |
0-262-27392-6
1-4356-6283-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782140703321 |
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| Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 | ||
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