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…and three centuries of steam power: Alan Chalmers: One hundred years of pressure: Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton. Dordrecht: Springer, 2017, ix+197pp, €99.99 HB
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 193-196
ISSN: 1467-9981
The chemistry of the separate condenser: David P. Miller: James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the origins of the steam age. Pickering & Chatto, London, 2009, x + 241 pp, £60.00 HB
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 483-484
ISSN: 1467-9981
Editorial
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 4-6
ISSN: 1467-9981
Individualism, Causal Location, and the Eclipse of Scholastic Philosophy
In: Social studies of science: an international review of research in the social dimensions of science and technology, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 321-350
ISSN: 1460-3659
Freudenthal has proposed that seventeenth-century philosophy depends upon a presumption that the behaviour of a material object is to be accounted for in terms of properties that are localized within its fundamental particles, rather than in the relationships between the object and its environment. He attributes this metaphysical preference to a special emphasis on the priority of the individual in contemporary social developments. I argue the contrary: the localization of causality is not a characteristic of the new philosophy, but is indeed one of the fundamental principles of the scholastic tradition, both in its social philosophy and in its philosophy of nature. By comparison with their opponents, the seventeenth-century mechanists are radical holists, promoting the view that the bulk of an object's properties resides in relationships with the remainder of the universe. Freudenthal's contrast between the matter-theory of `feudal-organic' Europe and that of early capitalism is quite invalid, and with it, his attempt at social explanation of the genesis of modern science.
Britain's private housing boom: example or warning?
In: The survey. Survey graphic : magazine of social interpretation, Band 27, S. 233-234
ISSN: 0196-8777
The Decline and Fall of British Capitalism
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 479
ISSN: 1938-274X
Rival Partners: America and Britain in the Postwar World
In: Pacific affairs: an international review of Asia and the Pacific, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 323
ISSN: 1715-3379
Review symposia
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 7-85
ISSN: 1467-9981