With contributions from two of the original discoverers of protective measurement, this book investigates its broad applications and deep implications.
This intellectual biography surveys Leibniz''ss interests and offers a portrait of a unique thinker, identifying the master project that inspired his huge range of endeavors.
This intellectual biography surveys Leibniz''ss interests and offers a portrait of a unique thinker, identifying the master project that inspired his huge range of endeavors.
This book examines and extrapolates from famous historical case studies to illustrate principles of cognitive deception and how to avoid being deceived.
This book examines and extrapolates from famous historical case studies to illustrate principles of cognitive deception and how to avoid being deceived.
Using an integrated philosophical and historical approach, this book explores the fundamental shift in understandings of space in the scientific revolution.
Using an integrated philosophical and historical approach, this book explores the fundamental shift in understandings of space in the scientific revolution.
When originally published in 1952, this book filled a gap in the history of philosophy and science and remains an important work today, because it puts the main mathematical and physical discoveries of Descartes in an accessible form, for the benefit of English readers.
Knowledge and Power shows how science has developed in different historical settings by focusing on four episodes in the history of world science from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century.
Knowledge and Power shows how science has developed in different historical settings by focusing on four episodes in the history of world science from the Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century.
A biography of an important but little-known American scientist that evokes the issues of religious and secular beliefs and the evolution of Chinese scientific and educational institutions during the early 1900s.
A biography of an important but little-known American scientist that evokes the issues of religious and secular beliefs and the evolution of Chinese scientific and educational institutions during the early 1900s.