Three conversations about knowing

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Terry Shinn and Richard Whitley

This annual publication brings together articles centred around particular themes in the Sociology of the Sciences as a means of contributing to the development of a comparative, cross disciplinary understanding of the sciences. By publishing research articles from a number of perspectives and approaches on a specific topic, the Yearbook provides an opportunity for the integration of different disciplinary strategies and their interrelated development.

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Ronald de Sousa

"In a world where natural selection has shaped and adaptations of astonishing ingenuity, what is the scope and unique power of rational thinking?" "In this short and wide-ranging book, philosopher Ronald de Sousa looks at the twin set of issues surrounding the power of natural selection to mimic rational design, and rational thinking as itself a product of natural selection." "This book shows how our rationality and our irrationality are inextricable intertwines. Ranging over a wide array of evidence, it explores the true ramification of being human in the natural world."--Jacket.

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G. W. Leibniz

Leibniz argues chapter by chapter with John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, challenging his views about knowledge, personal identity, God, morality, mind and matter, nature versus nurture, logic and language, and a host of other topics. --From publisher description.

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P.L. Christiansen, M.P. Sørensen, A.C. Scott, (eds

Nonlinear science is by now a well established field of research at the interface of many traditional disciplines and draws on the theoretical concepts developed in physics and mathematics. The present volume gathers the contributions of leading scientists to give the state of the art in many areas strongly influenced by nonlinear research, such as superconduction, optics, lattice dynamics, biology and biomolecular dynamics. While this volume is primarily intended for researchers working in the field care, has been taken that it will also be of benefit to graduate students or nonexpert scientist wishing to familiarize themselves with the current status of research.