{"product_id":"9789048145461","title":"Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBoston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFan Dainian; Cohen, Robert S.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe articles in this collection were all selected from the  first five volumes of the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Dialectics of Nature\u003c\/em\u003e  published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985.  The \u003cem\u003eJournal\u003c\/em\u003e was established in 1979 as a comprehensive  theoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy and  sociology of the natural sciences. It began publication as a response  to China's reform, particularly the policy of opening to the outside  world. Chinese scholars began to undertake distinctive, original  research in these fields. This collection provides a cross-section of  their efforts during the initial phase. \u003cbr\u003e  To enable western scholars to understand the historical process of  this change in Chinese academics, Yu Guangyuan's `On the Emancipation  of the Mind' and Xu Liangying's `Essay on the Role of Science and  Democracy in Society' have been included in this collection. \u003cbr\u003e  Three of the papers included on the philosophy of science are  discussions of philosophical issues in cosmology and biology by  scientists themselves. The remaining four are written by philosophers  of science and discuss information and cognition, homeostasis and  Chinese traditional medicine, the \u003cem\u003eI Ching\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eYi Jing\u003c\/em\u003e) and  mathematics, etc. \u003cbr\u003e  Papers have been selected on the history of both classical and modern  science and technology, the most distinctive of which are  macro-comparisons of the development of science in China and the west.  Some papers discuss the issue of the demarcation of periods in the  history of science, the history of ancient Chinese mathematics,  astronomy, metallurgy, machinery, medicine, etc. Others discuss the  history of modern physics and biology, the history of historiography  of science in China and the history of regional development of Chinese  science and technology. \u003cbr\u003e  Also included are biographies of three post-eighteenth-century Chinese  scholars, Li Shanlan (1811-1882), Hua Hengfang  (1833\u0026amp;endash;1902), and Cai Yuanpei (1868\u0026amp;endash;1940), who  contributed greatly to the introduction of western science and  scholarship to China. In addition, three short papers have been  included introducing the interactions between Chinese scholars and  three great western scientists, Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and Robert  A. Millikan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2011-04-10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789048145461\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-015-8717-4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 240cm x160cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 483\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44343314284684,"sku":"9789048145461","price":296.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789048145461.jpg?v=1771508948","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9789048145461","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}