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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2016

Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

ISBN (Hardback): 9781137578167

Full citation:

Elena Aronova, Simone Turchetti (eds), Science studies during the Cold War and beyond, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Science studies during the Cold War and beyond

Contents

Introduction

science studies in East and West—incommensurable paradigms?

Elena Aronova, Simone Turchetti

1-20

Telegrams and paradigms

on Cold War geopolitics and the structure of scientific revolutions

George Reisch

23-53

"What's so great about science?"

Feyerabend on science, ideology, and the Cold War

Ian James Kidd

55-76

Looking for the bad teachers

the radical science movement and its transnational history

Simone Turchetti

77-101

Thomas Kuhn's structure

an "exemplary document of the Cold War era"?

Hans-Joachim Dahms

103-125

Blind isolation

history of science behind the Iron Curtain

129-148

The science of science (naukoznawstwo) in Poland

defending and removing the past in the Cold War

Michał Kokowski

149-176

Scientists of the world, unite!

Radovan Richta's theory of scientific and technological revolution

Vitězslav Sommer

177-204

The Cold War, political Neutrality, and academic boundaries

imprints on the origins and early development of science studies in Sweden

Aant Elzinga

207-240

What does a "national science" mean?

science policy, politics and philosophy in Latin America

Federico Vasen

241-265

From dialectics of nature to STS

the historical evolution of science studies in China

Lu Gao

267-288