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Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
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Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (Hardcover, 1996 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 179
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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 distinctive of which are macro-comparisons of the
development of science in China and the west. Some papers discuss
the issue of the demarcation of periods in the history of science,
the history of ancient Chinese mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy,
machinery, medicine, etc. Others discuss the history of modern
physics and biology, the history of historiography of science in
China and thehistory of regional development of Chinese science and
technology. Also included are biographies of three
post-eighteenth-century Chinese scholars, Li Shanlan (1811-1882),
Hua Hengfang (1833&endash;1902), and Cai Yuanpei
(1868&endash;1940), who contributed greatly to the introduction
of western science and scholarship to China. In addition, three
short papers have been included introducing the interactions
between Chinese scholars and three great western scientists, Niels
Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and Robert A. Millikan.
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