Between science and values / Loren R. Graham.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1981.Description: x, 449 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 0231051921
- 9780231051927
- 023105193X
- 9780231051934
- Q175.5 .G72
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-439) and index.
pt. 1. The physical sciences: Physical knowledge and values: The new physics -- Physical knowledge and society: Eddington and the English-speaking world ; Fock and the Soviet Union ; Heisenberg and Germany ; Bergson, Monod, and France -- pt. 2. The biological sciences: Biological knowledge and values: Studying animals to learn about man ; Primatology and sociobiology -- Biological knowledge and society: Eugenics: Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia ; Biomedical ethics -- pt. 3. Reactions to the dilemma of science and values: Public concerns about science and technology: the question of limits of inquiry -- Attempts to provide a philosophical overview -- pt. 4. What kind of expansionism do we want?: Science and values: attempts at historical understanding.