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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