Robert P Crease
Biographic Data
| ID | 461813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Crease |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Crease |
| SIGNATURE | CREASE R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2028-3795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Leak
How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class, Nobel Prize–winning lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science and one of the world's finest research facil…
Leak
Interview with physicist Christopher Fuchs
Introduction
Edward Condon's Cooperative Vision
The Workshop and the World
Galileo and the humanities
Galileo’s greatest contribution did not involve lenses, pendulums or mathematics. His most revolutionary act – what is at the core of what might be called the Galilean moment – was to usher in a way of looking at the world in which we can look at the heavens with lenses, think of its chandeliers and swings as pendulums, and read its book in the language of mathematics. This is more than a scientific development; it is at once an intellectual and …
Dogmatism rampant
Medida do Mundo
A Short History of Physics in the American Century
A brief, nontechnical history of twentieth-century physics aimed at nonphysicists is highly desirable: in that era, physics revolutionized our picture of nature, reshaped geopolitics, and bequeathed now-unavoidable ethical dilemmas. Yet such a story is difficult to tell. Its plot includes a host of characters, laboratories, and machines; seminal episodes include the Great Depression, the Manhattan Project, Sputnik, and the failed attempt to “thro…
Grandes Equacoes
Trust, expertise, and the philosophy of science
Covariant Realism
Covariant Realism Hermeneutic phenomenology of science implies a particular version of realism. It approaches scientific entities in a twofold perspective: in their relation to other parts of the theory (as elements in a theoretical "language"), and in relation to the lifeworld as mediated by laboratory practices; as "fulfilled" in laboratory situations that "produce" worldly objects. The question then arises of the relation between the two persp…
What Things Do
Science as Erotic Service
Inquiry and performance
The concept of performance can be used to explain and elaborate key aspects of various issues often neglected within traditional philosophy of science, including among others artistry, technique, and affective power. The word ‘performance’ has a spectrumof meanings, but one important sense in which it is applied, especially in the dramatic arts, is to the conception, production, and witnessing of material events the experience of which gives us s…
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Primacy of Movement
Dreyfus on expertise
From Hiroshima to the Iceman
Imagined Worlds. Freeman Dyson
Making Physics
Journal Article Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946–1972. By Robert P. Crease. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii, 434 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-226-12017-1.) Get access James R. Hansen James R. Hansen Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Page 728, https://doi.org/10.2307/25…
Peace and War
Image and Logic
Reviewed by: Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics * Robert P. Crease (bio) Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics. By Peter Galison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xxv+955; figures, notes, bibliography, index. $90 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics is a study of the instruments of modern physics, the diverse subcultures they have engendered, and the relations b…
Peace & War
Journal Article Peace & War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science. By Robert Serber and Robert P. Crease. New York: Columbia University Press and The Myths of August: A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair with the Atom. By Stewart L. Udall. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press Get access Lawrence S. Wittner Lawrence S. Wittner State University of New York, Albany, New York Search for other works by this author on:…
The improvisational problem
Trust, expertise, and the philosophy of science
Covariant Realism
Covariant Realism Hermeneutic phenomenology of science implies a particular version of realism. It approaches scientific entities in a twofold perspective: in their relation to other parts of the theory (as elements in a theoretical "language"), and in relation to the lifeworld as mediated by laboratory practices; as "fulfilled" in laboratory situations that "produce" worldly objects. The question then arises of the relation between the two persp…
The improvisational problem
Dialectic and difference
The improvisational problem
Peace and War
Image and Logic
Reviewed by: Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics * Robert P. Crease (bio) Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics. By Peter Galison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xxv+955; figures, notes, bibliography, index. $90 (cloth); $34.95 (paper). Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics is a study of the instruments of modern physics, the diverse subcultures they have engendered, and the relations b…
Peace & War
Journal Article Peace & War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science. By Robert Serber and Robert P. Crease. New York: Columbia University Press and The Myths of August: A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair with the Atom. By Stewart L. Udall. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press Get access Lawrence S. Wittner Lawrence S. Wittner State University of New York, Albany, New York Search for other works by this author on:…
Making Physics
Journal Article Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946–1972. By Robert P. Crease. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. xii, 434 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-226-12017-1.) Get access James R. Hansen James R. Hansen Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Page 728, https://doi.org/10.2307/25…
From Hiroshima to the Iceman
Imagined Worlds. Freeman Dyson
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, The Primacy of Movement
Dreyfus on expertise
Inquiry and performance
The concept of performance can be used to explain and elaborate key aspects of various issues often neglected within traditional philosophy of science, including among others artistry, technique, and affective power. The word ‘performance’ has a spectrumof meanings, but one important sense in which it is applied, especially in the dramatic arts, is to the conception, production, and witnessing of material events the experience of which gives us s…
What Things Do
Science as Erotic Service
Covariant Realism
Covariant Realism Hermeneutic phenomenology of science implies a particular version of realism. It approaches scientific entities in a twofold perspective: in their relation to other parts of the theory (as elements in a theoretical "language"), and in relation to the lifeworld as mediated by laboratory practices; as "fulfilled" in laboratory situations that "produce" worldly objects. The question then arises of the relation between the two persp…
Trust, expertise, and the philosophy of science
Grandes Equacoes
A Short History of Physics in the American Century
A brief, nontechnical history of twentieth-century physics aimed at nonphysicists is highly desirable: in that era, physics revolutionized our picture of nature, reshaped geopolitics, and bequeathed now-unavoidable ethical dilemmas. Yet such a story is difficult to tell. Its plot includes a host of characters, laboratories, and machines; seminal episodes include the Great Depression, the Manhattan Project, Sputnik, and the failed attempt to “thro…
Medida do Mundo
Dogmatism rampant
Galileo and the humanities
Galileo’s greatest contribution did not involve lenses, pendulums or mathematics. His most revolutionary act – what is at the core of what might be called the Galilean moment – was to usher in a way of looking at the world in which we can look at the heavens with lenses, think of its chandeliers and swings as pendulums, and read its book in the language of mathematics. This is more than a scientific development; it is at once an intellectual and …
The Workshop and the World
Edward Condon's Cooperative Vision
Interview with physicist Christopher Fuchs
Introduction
The Leak
How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class, Nobel Prize–winning lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science and one of the world's finest research facil…
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