Research Catalog

Title

Science and its public : the changing relationship / edited by Gerald Holton and William A. Blanpied.

Publication

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co., ©1976.

Supplementary Content

20150401174156

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Additional Authors

• Holton, Gerald James.
• Blanpied, William A., 1933-

Description

xxv, 289 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 33
• Synthese library ; v. 96

Uniform Title

• Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 33.
• Synthese library ; v. 96.

Subject

• Science > Social aspects
• Science and state

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / Gerald Holton -- Introduction / William A. Blanpied -- Faith, utility, and the legitimacy of science / Edward Shils -- The monsters and the Titan : science, knowledge and Gnosis / Theodore Roszak -- Reflections of a working scientist / Steven Weinberg -- On the nature and condition of social science / Marc J. Roberts -- on being caught between Dionysians and Apollonians / Gerald Holton -- Agriculture, the island empire / Andre Mayer and Jean Mayer -- Money and influence : the links of science to public policy / Don K. Price -- The precarious life of science in the White House / David Z. Beckler -- Science policy : relationships are the key / Emilo Q. Daddario -- New laboratories for old / David J. Rose -- On academic scientists in Wilhelmian Germany / Russell McCormmach -- The nineteenth-century amateur tradition : the case of the Boston Society of Natural History / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt -- Creationism in California / John A. Moore -- Science of scripture : the politics of "equal time" / Dorothy Nelkin -- The public appreciation of science in contemporary America / Amitai Etziono and Clyde Nunn -- Science and the mass media / David Perlman -- Pop science : the depiction of science in popular culture / George Basalla.

Call Number

OA (Boston studies in the philosophy of science. v. 33)

ISBN

• 9027706573
• 9789027706577
• 9027706581
• 9789027706584

LCCN

75041391

OCLC

1994429

Title

Science and its public : the changing relationship / edited by Gerald Holton and William A. Blanpied.

Imprint

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co., ©1976.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 33

Synthese library ; v. 96

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 33.

Synthese library ; v. 96.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Holton, Gerald James.

Blanpied, William A., 1933-

Research Call Number

OA (Boston studies in the philosophy of science. v. 33)