
Philosophy of Science

- Alic, Margaret. Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in
Science from Antinquity through the Nineteenth Century. Boston:
Beacon Press, 1986. Alic draws on a wealth of biographic and
scientific evidence to describe the stories of women whose names
have been left off the history of science books, whose work has
been suppressed or stolen, and in many cases whose achievements
have been denied. The books contains drawings, diagrams, and
pictures to illustrate the work of women in science.
- Berliner, David C. and Rosenshine, Barak V, eds,. Talks to
Teachers. New York: Random House, 1987. This is a collection of
essays discussing classroom instruction, student motivation and
cognitions, teacher expectations, and instructional goals, testing
and planning.
- Bronowski, Jacob. A Sense of the Future: Essays in Natural
Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1978. Bronowski
explores the philosophy of science through a series of essays on
science, imagination, and invention.
- Bronowski, Jacob. Science and Human Values. New York: Harper
and Row Publishers, 1956. Three essays which describe a central
proposition: that the practice of science compels the practitioner
to form a fundatmental set of universal values.
- Goodfield, June. An Imagined World: A Story of Scientific
Discovery. New York: Harper and Row, 1981. What is the nature
of scientific discovery? Goodfield explores this question by
documenting the processes one scientist went through on the road
to discovery.
- Gornick, Vivian, Women in Science. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1990. In this book Gornick weaves a story of science
the result of interviews of the cross section of women scientists
in all their diversity, exploring their emotional, intellectual,
and physical experiences. The book contains more than 100 brief
vignettes, which together help develop and redefine the
science.
- Sagan, Carl. Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of
Science. New York: Random House, 1979. This book will give you
an overview of Sagan's thinking with tantelizing chapters such as
Can we know the Universe? Reflections on a grain of salt; White
Dwarfs and Little Green Men; Venus and Dr. Velikovsky; a Planet
Named George.
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