Judith Jarvis Thomson is Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of
The Realm of Rights; Rights, Restitution, and Risk: Essays in Moral Theory; and
Acts and Other Events. She coauthored
Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity and edited
On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard Cartwright.
19 Ebooks by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Judith Jarvis Thomson: Goodness and Advice
How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doin …
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Smith Barbara Herrnstein Smith: Natural Reflections
In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human …
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Barbara Herrnstein Smith: Scandalous Knowledge
This book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of science, and contemporary cognitive science. Smith reviews the key i …
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John Kadvany: Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason
The Hungarian emigre Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre …
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Susan Oyama: Evolution’s Eye
In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior ca …
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Darryl Gless & Barbara Herrnstein Smith: Politics of Liberal Education
Controversy over what role "the great books" should play in college curricula and questions about who defines "the literary canon" are at the forefront of debates in higher educat …
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Arkady Plotnitsky & Barbara Herrnstein Smith: Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory
Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language, pr …
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John Law: Aircraft Stories
In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells "stories" about a British attempt to build a military aircraft-the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates …
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John Law & Annemarie Mol: Complexities
Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, it …
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Volker Scheid: Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional, & …
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E. Roy Weintraub: How Economics Became a Mathematical Science
In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, s …
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Annemarie Mol: Body Multiple
The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atheros …
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Eva M. Neumann-Held & Christoph Rehmann-Sutter: Genes in Development
In light of scientific advances such as genomics, predictive diagnostics, genetically engineered agriculture, nuclear transfer cloning, and the manipulation of stem cells, the idea that genes carry p …
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Robert Mitchell & Catherine Waldby: Tissue Economies
As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues-such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines-are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes …
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M. Norton Wise: Growing Explanations
For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components-nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on-but ov …
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Keith Guzik & Andrew Pickering: Mangle in Practice
In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a "mangle, " an open-ended, evolutionary, and …
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Angela N. H. Creager & Elizabeth Lunbeck: Science without Laws
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable b …
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Bruce Clarke & Mark B. N. Hansen: Emergence and Embodiment
Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics-the study of communication and control systems-was mainstreamed under the names artificial intelligence and computer science and taken up by the social sc …
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David Aubin & Charlotte Bigg: Heavens on Earth
The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a la …
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