Interactions : some contacts between the natural sciences and the social sciences

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Interactions : some contacts between the natural sciences and the social sciences

I. Bernard Cohen

MIT Press, c1994

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780262032230

内容説明

One of the fruits of the scientific revolution was the idea of a social science - a science of government, of individual behaviour, and of society - that would operate in ways comparable to the newly triumphant natural sciences. Thus was set in motion a long and often convoluted chain of two-way interactions that still have implications for both scholarship and public policy. This text, by the dean of American historians of science, offers a historical perspective on these interactions. The core of the book consists of two essays. The first focuses on the role of analogies as linking factors between the two realms. Examples are drawn from the physics of rational mechanics and energy physics (in relation to marginalist or neo-classical economics) and from the biology of the cell theory (in relation to 19th-century sociology). The second essay looks closely at the relations between the natural and the social sciences in the period of the Scientific Revolution. The book also includes a record of a series of conversations between the author and Harvey Brooks (Professor of Technology and Public Policy Emeritus at Harvard) that addresses the present-day public policy implications of the historical interactions between the natural and the social sciences. A short history of the terms "natural science" and "social science" concludes the book.

目次

  • Part 1 An analysis of interactions between natural sciences and the social sciences: definitions and problems
  • types of interaction
  • analogy and homology
  • metaphor
  • roles of analogy
  • rational mechanics and marginalist economics
  • biological theory and social theory
  • incorrect science, imperfect replication, and the transformation of scientific ideas
  • inappropriate or useless analogies. Part 2 The scientific revolution and the social sciences: the "new science" and the sciences of society
  • the 17th-century goal of a social science in mathematical form (Grotius, Spinoza, Vauban)
  • political arithmetic and political anatomy (Graunt and Petty)
  • an independent "civil" science based on the new physiology (Harrington). Part 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".
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780262531245

内容説明

One of the fruits of the Scientific Revolution was the idea of a social science that would operate in ways comparable to the newly triumphant natural sciences. Thus was set in motion a long and often convoluted chain of two-way interactions that still have implications for both scholarship and public policy. This book, by the dean of American historians of science, offers an excellent historical perspective on these interactions. One of the fruits of the Scientific Revolution was the idea of a social science-a science of government, of individual behavior, and of society-that would operate in ways comparable to the newly triumphant natural sciences. Thus was set in motion a long and often convoluted chain of two-way interactions that still have implications for both scholarship and public policy. This book, by the dean of American historians of science, offers an excellent historical perspective on these interactions. The core of the book consists of two long essays. The first focuses on the role of analogies as linking factors between the two realms. Examples are drawn from the physics of rational mechanics and energy physics (in relation to marginalist or neoclassical economics) and from the biology of the cell theory (in relation to nineteenth-century sociology). The second essay looks closely at the relations between the natural and the social sciences in the period of the Scientific Revolution. The book also includes a record of a series of conversations between the author and Harvey Brooks (Professor of Technology and Public Policy Emeritus at Harvard) that addresses the present-day public policy implications of the historical interactions between the natural and the social sciences. A short but illuminating history of the terms "natural science" and "social science" concludes the book.

目次

  • Part 1 An analysis of interactions between natural sciences and the social sciences: definitions and problems
  • types of interaction
  • analogy and homology
  • metaphor
  • roles of analogy
  • rational mechanics and marginalist economics
  • biological theory and social theory
  • incorrect science, imperfect replication, and the transformation of scientific ideas
  • inappropriate or useless analogies. Part 2 The scientific revolution and the social sciences: the "new science" and the sciences of society
  • the 17th-century goal of a social science in mathematical form (Grotius, Spinoza, Vauban)
  • political arithmetic and political anatomy (Graunt and Petty)
  • an independent "civil" science based on the new physiology (Harrington). Part 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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