Interactions : some contacts between the natural sciences and the social sciences /
I. Bernard Cohen.
Bok Engelsk 1994 · Electronic books
| Utgitt | Cambridge, Mass. : : MIT Press, , c1994.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xx, 204 p. ) : ill. ;
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| Opplysninger | 1. An Analysis of Interactions between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences. 1.3. Types of Interaction. 1.4. Analogy and Homology. 1.5. Metaphor. 1.6. Roles of Analogy. 1.7. Rational Mechanics and Marginalist Economics. 1.8. Biological Theory and Social Theory. 1.9. Incorrect Science, Imperfect Replication, and the Transformation of Scientific Ideas. 1.10. Inappropriate or Useless Analogies -- 2. The Scientific Revolution and the Social Sciences. 2.1. The "New Science" and the Sciences of Society. 2.2. The Seventeenth-Century Goal of a Social Science in Mathematical Form (Grotius, Spinoza, Vauban). 2.3. Political Arithmetic and Political Anatomy (Graunt and Petty). 2.4. An Independent "Civil" Science based on Motion (Hobbes). 2.5. The Notion of a Balance: A Social Science based on the New Physiology (Harrington) -- 3. A Conversation with Harvey Brooks on the Social Sciences, the Natural Sciences, and Public Policy -- A Note on "Social Science" and on "Natural Science."
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| ISBN | 0-262-27055-2. - 0-585-35611-4
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