Social Science and World Revolutions

The legacy of Islamic world in modern medicine and science

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...

The legacy of Islamic world in modern medicine and science

The legacy of the Islamic world in medicine and natural science is the legacy of Greece, increased by many additions, mostly practical. Rhazes, the Iranian, was a talented clinical observer, but not a Harvey. Abd al-Latif, the Arab, was a diligent seeker in anatomy, but in no way to be compared to Vesalius. The Muslims possessed excellent translations of the works of the Hippocratic Corpus and ...

Social science. Ignorance, knowledge, and outcomes in a small world.

eter (panel E, green regions) and flow vertically , driven by molecular diffusion of heat. Similarly, where warm, salty water lies underneath cool, fresh water (panel D, blue areas), diffusive convection causes enhanced upward heat flux (panel F). The fluxes from these phenomena cause density changes in the intrusive layers (panel C) that can both create intrusions and drive them horizontally. ...

What can cognitive science tell us about scientific revolutions?∗

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions is notable for the readiness with which it drew on the results of cognitive psychology. These naturalistic elements were not well received and Kuhn did not subsequently develop them in his published work. Nonetheless, in a philosophical climate more receptive to naturalism, we are able to give a more positive evaluation of Kuhn’s proposals. Recently, p...

70 Another Science for Another World ? : Science and Genomics at the London Social Forum 1