Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2016
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
ISBN (Hardback): 9781137578167
Full citation:
Elena Aronova, Simone Turchetti (eds), Science studies during the Cold War and beyond, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Science studies during the Cold War and beyond
Contents
Introduction
science studies in East and West—incommensurable paradigms?
Elena Aronova, Simone Turchetti
1-20
Telegrams and paradigms
on Cold War geopolitics and the structure of scientific revolutions
George Reisch
23-53
"What's so great about science?"
Feyerabend on science, ideology, and the Cold War
Ian James Kidd
55-76
Looking for the bad teachers
the radical science movement and its transnational history
Simone Turchetti
77-101
The science of science (naukoznawstwo) in Poland
defending and removing the past in the Cold War
Michał Kokowski
149-176
Scientists of the world, unite!
Radovan Richta's theory of scientific and technological revolution
Vitězslav Sommer
177-204
The Cold War, political Neutrality, and academic boundaries
imprints on the origins and early development of science studies in Sweden
Aant Elzinga
207-240
What does a "national science" mean?
science policy, politics and philosophy in Latin America
Federico Vasen
241-265