Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Date: 1996. First printing. 8vo. 471 pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 1996. Kluwer Academic Publishers ISBN 0792334639 9780792334637 [US]

Dordrecht Springer 1996 1996 ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 483 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 179.

ISBN10: 0792334639, ISBN13: 9780792334637, [publisher: Springer Netherlands] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The articles in this collection were all selected from the first five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy and sociology of the natural sciences. It began publication as a response to China's reform, particularly the policy of opening to the outside world. Chinese scholars began to undertake distinctive, original research in these fields. This collection provides a cross-section of their efforts during the initial phase. To enable western scholars to understand the historical process of this change in Chinese academics, Yu Guangyuan's `On the Emancipation of the Mind' and Xu Liangying's `Essay on the Role of Science and Democracy in Society' have been included in this collection. Three of the papers included on the philosophy of science are discussions of philosophical issues in cosmology and biology by scientists themselves. The remaining four are written by philosophers of science and discuss information and cognition, homeostasis and Chinese traditional medicine, the I Ching (Yi Jing) and mathematics, etc. Papers have been selected on the history of both classical and modern science and technology, the most ...
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Dordrecht Springer 1996 1996 ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 483 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 179.