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How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community? How and why do scientists choose among empirically equivalent theories? In this pathbreaking book translated from the Italian, Marcello Pera addresses these questions by exploring the politics, rhetoric, scientific practices, and metaphysical assumptions that entered into the famous Galvani-Volta controversy of the late eighteenth century. This lively debate erupted when two scientists, each examining the muscle contractions of a dissected frog in contact with metal, came up with opposing but experimentally valid explanations of the phenomenon. Luigi Galvani, a doctor and physiologist, believed that he had discovered animal electricity (electrical body fluid existing naturally in a state of disequilibrium), while the physicist Alessandro Volta attributed the contractions to ordinary physical electricity. Beginning with the electrical concepts understood by scientists in the 1790s, Pera traces the careers of Galvani and Volta and explains their laboratory procedures. He shows that their controversy derived from two basic, irreducible interpretations of the proper nature of a common domain: Galvani saw the frog phenomenon as the work of biological organs, Volta as that of a physical apparatus. The initial preference for Volta's theory, maintains Pera, depended not on clear-cut methodological rules, but on a dialectical dispute for which the renowned physicist was better equipped, partly because he shared the dominant metaphysical views of his time. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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9780691633183 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $104.95
9780691085128 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community?
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9780691603971 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: How do ideas become accepted by the scientific community?
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9789027724175 | D Reidel Pub Co, September 1, 1987, cover price $99.00
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9789401081818 | Springer Verlag, October 12, 2011, cover price $99.00
Product Description: The intellectual and political elite of the West is nowadays taking for granted that religion, in particular Christianity, is a cultural vestige, a primitive form of knowledge, a consolation for the poor minded, an obstacle to coexistence...read more
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9781594035647 | Encounter Books, September 27, 2011, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The intellectual and political elite of the West is nowadays taking for granted that religion, in particular Christianity, is a cultural vestige, a primitive form of knowledge, a consolation for the poor minded, an obstacle to coexistence.
Product Description: ¿Por qué deberÃamos considerarnos cristianos? Hoy somos liberales y, por consiguiente, no necesitamos dirigirnos al cristianismo para justificar nuestros derechos y libertades fundamentales. Somos laicos y, en consecuencia, podemos considerar las fes religiosas como creencias privadas...read more
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9788499200316, titled "Por quâ debemos considerarnos cristianos: Un Alegato Liberal" | Ediciones Encuentro Sa, April 5, 2010, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: ¿Por qué deberÃamos considerarnos cristianos?
This is Ratzinger's first book as Pope. Written in conjunction with President of the Italian Senate, Marcello Pera--a partnering of the statesman and the holy man--the book is a reassessment of the European 'West' and its struggle to define itself in thewake of war, terrorism, diplomatic and spiritual crisis. Pope Benedict reveals a thorough grasp of the contemporary global climate and the tentative and fractious bonds that tie Europe to the rest of the world. Though critical and cautionary, the new Pope ultimately offers an assertive message of hope to mend the West's fractured identity and reconnect with its spiritual roots.--From publisher description.
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9780465006342 | Basic Books, February 13, 2006, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Pope Benedict XVI and the President of the Italian Senate offer a critique of the spiritual and political crises affecting Europe, discussing human rights, morality, relativism, terrorism, and relations with the United States.
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9780465006274 | Basic Books, January 29, 2007, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: This is Ratzinger's first book as Pope.
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9781586171421 | Ignatius Pr, May 30, 2006, cover price $14.95
Product Description: Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data. Recently, however, social constructionists have claimed that the outcome of scientific debates is strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the participants...read more
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9780195119879 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 20, 2000, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data.
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9780226656175 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 15, 1994, cover price $54.00
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9780881350715 | Science History Pubns, May 1, 1991, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Science History Pubns, Canton, MA, 1991.
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