Alan G Gro
Biographic Data
| ID | 979402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan G Gro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan G |
| FAMILY NAME | Gro |
| SIGNATURE | GRO A G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Verbal and the Visual in Science
ArgumentHeidegger's philosophy of science is notable for the prominence it gives to visuals and visualization. This is because for Heidegger, truth - including scientific truth - is the consequence of unconcealment, the lifting of a veil. But as scientific truth is a special kind, its visualization is also special: scientific truth reveals itself to us as, in Heidegger's words, "a calculable nexus of forces." This nexus unconceals itself largely …
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context
Richard Harvey Brown as text
A POETIC FOR SOCIOLOGY: TOWARD A LOGIC OF DISCOVERY FOR THE HUMAN SCIENCES. By Richard Harvey Brown. Cambridge: University of Chicago Press, 1989 [1977]. pp. 1–302, $17.95. SOCIETY AS TEXT: ESSAYS ON RHETORIC, REASON, AND REALITY. By Richard Harvey Brown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. pp. 1–252, $16.95. SOCIAL SCIENCE AS CIVIC DISCOURSE: ESSAYS ON THE INVENTION, LEGITIMATION, AND USES OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY. By Richard Harvey Brown.…
Do Disputes over Priority Tell Us Anything about Science
The ArgumentConflicts between scientists over credit for their discoveries are conflicts, not merely in, but of science because discovery is not a historical event, but a retrospective social judgment. There is no objective moment of discovery; rather, discovery is established by means of a hermeneutics, a way of reading scientific articles. The priority conflict between Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally over the discovery of the brain hormone, …
Science. Steve Fuller
Do Disputes over Priority Tell Us Anything about Science
The ArgumentConflicts between scientists over credit for their discoveries are conflicts, not merely in, but of science because discovery is not a historical event, but a retrospective social judgment. There is no objective moment of discovery; rather, discovery is established by means of a hermeneutics, a way of reading scientific articles. The priority conflict between Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally over the discovery of the brain hormone, …
Do Disputes over Priority Tell Us Anything about Science
The ArgumentConflicts between scientists over credit for their discoveries are conflicts, not merely in, but of science because discovery is not a historical event, but a retrospective social judgment. There is no objective moment of discovery; rather, discovery is established by means of a hermeneutics, a way of reading scientific articles. The priority conflict between Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally over the discovery of the brain hormone, …
Science. Steve Fuller
Richard Harvey Brown as text
A POETIC FOR SOCIOLOGY: TOWARD A LOGIC OF DISCOVERY FOR THE HUMAN SCIENCES. By Richard Harvey Brown. Cambridge: University of Chicago Press, 1989 [1977]. pp. 1–302, $17.95. SOCIETY AS TEXT: ESSAYS ON RHETORIC, REASON, AND REALITY. By Richard Harvey Brown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. pp. 1–252, $16.95. SOCIAL SCIENCE AS CIVIC DISCOURSE: ESSAYS ON THE INVENTION, LEGITIMATION, AND USES OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY. By Richard Harvey Brown.…
Scientific Discourse in Sociohistorical Context
The Verbal and the Visual in Science
ArgumentHeidegger's philosophy of science is notable for the prominence it gives to visuals and visualization. This is because for Heidegger, truth - including scientific truth - is the consequence of unconcealment, the lifting of a veil. But as scientific truth is a special kind, its visualization is also special: scientific truth reveals itself to us as, in Heidegger's words, "a calculable nexus of forces." This nexus unconceals itself largely …
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History of science (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work)