How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...
Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago. As I explain in The ...
In recent decades medical science has undergone a revolution. If once medicine dealt mainly with curing diseases after they appeared, today a new approach is becoming established: Preventive, ...
The canonical imperative : rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler -- Newton as final cause and first mover / B.J.T. Dobbs -- The Scientific Revolution reasserted / Richard S.
For 40 years and more, Dennis Flanagan has been struggling to popularize the scientific revolution that we are in. Now that is a long time. It’s about enough time, for example, for a northeastern ...
Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements for the Third Edition; The Scientific Revolution and the Historiography of Science; Renaissance and Revolution; The Scientific Method; Magic and the Origins of ...
Cognitive science is, by its very nature, a field that requires the simultaneous presence of psychology, neuroscience, ...