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The Tangle of Science
The Tangle of Science argues that the scientific method, rigour, and objectivity are insufficient to guarantee reliability. It shows how reliable science is underpinned by a vast network of other scientific products, brings into focus neglected areas of science, and emphasizes how every product works together to support results we can trust.
A Philosopher Looks at Science
A fresh, provocative and engaging treatment of what science really amounts to in society, and of what it can do.
Welches Wissen (und welche Wissenschaft) braucht die Politik?
Unter Krisenbedingungen wird das Wechselverhältnis von Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Politik auf besondere Weise herausgefordert. Die Dringlichkeit und Tragweite politischen Handelns, etwa mit Blick auf Infektionsschutz und Sicherung des Gesundheitssystems in der Covid-19-Pandemie, hat die Frage, welches Wissen politisch handlungsleitend sein soll, noch einmal verschärft. Insbesondere das Paradigma evidenzbasierter Politik (EPB) stellt dabei einen Kristallisationspunkt dar, anhand dessen die Grenzen eines verengten Begriffs tragfähigen Wissens ebenso deutlich werden wie die Gefahr eines verkürzten Verständnisses von Politik. Ziel des Bandes ist, das aufgezeigte Spannungsfeld in seinen verschiedenen Dimensionen zu beleuchten und (1) aufzuzeigen, unter welchen Bedingungen wissenschaftliches Wissen einen Beitrag zu guter demokratischer Politik leisten kann, (2) welche Verantwortung der Wissenschaft für die Bildung einer kompetenten Öffentlichkeit zukommt und (3) zu fragen, wie demokratische Gesellschaften aufgestellt sein bzw. sich transformieren müssen, um diese Art selbstreflexiver kooperativer Problemlösung betreiben zu können.
The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire
Herbert Adams Gibbons' 'The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire' provides an in-depth and historical look at the rise of the Ottoman Empire. Gibbons uses a scholarly approach, drawing on primary sources and historical records to provide a detailed account of the empire's origins and early development. Through his meticulous research and careful analysis, Gibbons explores the political, economic, and social factors that contributed to the establishment of this powerful empire. His writing style is academic yet accessible, making this book a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in Ottoman history and the broader context of the medieval world. Herbert Adams Gibbons, a respected h...
Inventing the Performing Arts
Indonesia, with its mix of ethnic cultures, cosmopolitan ethos, and strong national ideology, offers a useful lens for examining the intertwining of tradition and modernity in globalized Asia. In Inventing the Performing Arts, Matthew Isaac Cohen explores the profound change in diverse arts practices from the nineteenth century until 1949. He demonstrates that modern modes of transportation and communication not only brought the Dutch colony of Indonesia into the world economy, but also stimulated the emergence of new art forms and modern attitudes to art, disembedded and remoored traditions, and hybridized foreign and local. In the nineteenth century, access to novel forms of entertainment,...
The Grammar of Interactives
This book explores a domain of discourse processing referred to as 'interactive grammar', based on an analysis of grammatical descriptions of over 100 languages. Bernd Heine shows that interactive grammar should be treated as a distinct category that contrasts with sentence grammar in both its functions and its structural behavior.
The Tangle of Science
Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard answers--the scientific method, rigour, and objectivity--are insufficient for the job. Here we propose a new model of science which places its products front and centre. In The Tangle of Science we show how any reliable piece of science is underpinned by a vast, diverse, and thick network of other scientific products. In doing so we bring back into focus areas of science that have been long neglected, emphasizing how every product, from the screws that hold the space shuttle together, to ways of measuring the consumer price index, to Einstein's theory of general relativity, work together to support results we can trust.
Born Again
Oestermann, a Dane by birth who has lived in Israel since 1961, presents 35 brief human interest stories about Israel's ordinary and extraordinary citizens, including a man who leads treks in the desert, an Israeli woman whose life was saved by an Arab physician, and Israeli transsexual singer Dana International. The volume includes bandw photos; it lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the AfroEurasian World
A cutting-edge analysis of 2,500 years of Persian visual, architectural, and material cultures of power and their role in connecting the world. With the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE), Persian institutions of kingship became the model for legitimacy, authority, and prestige across three continents. Despite enormous upheavals, Iranian visual and political cultures connected an ever-wider swath of Afro-Eurasia over the next two millennia, exerting influence at key historical junctures. This book provides the first critical exploration of the role Persian cultures played in articulating the myriad ways power was expressed across Afro-Eurasia between the sixth century BCE and the ...
