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To STUDY the philosophy of science has always been a complex task, reaching to the methods and achievements of the sciences, to their histories and their contexts, and to their human implications. Sometimes favored by their social environment, sometimes dissenting from their Zeitgeist, the scientists have taken varying roles in the social spectrum, allied with differing interests, classes, powers, religions, evaluative outlooks. Philosophers should be interested as much in the changing social situations of science and of scientists as in the changing empirical findings and explanatory...

In den letzten Jahren ist eine neue Betrachtungsweise in der Wissen schaftsgeschichte entstanden - eine Betrachtungsweise, die ihre fruchtbaren Ideen aus weit auseinanderliegenden Gebieten sucht, die von Wissenschafts philosophie und -_Jziologie bis hin zur Psychologie und Asthetik reichen. Viel leicht wird bald ein neuer Name fur dieses erweiterte Forschungsgebiet erfor derlich sein; noch wesentlicher sind jedoch seine neuen Fragestellungen, Be griffe und Modelle. Anhand spezifischer Fallstudien aus der Physik soll in diesem Buch ge zeigt werden, in welcher Beziehung die traditionellen...

UNDERSTANDING PHYSICS is an innovative introductory course designed for students preparing to enter careers in fields outside of science or engineering, including students planning to teach, or already teaching, in K-12 classrooms. It is inspired by the famous Project Physics Course, which became known for its success in inspiring students with the excitement of physics by placing its concepts within a broader humanistic context.--UNDERSTANDING PHYSICS enables students to gain a full appreciation of physics both as a discipline and as a body of knowledge: a sense of what the concepts mean,...