Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat : scenes from the living laboratory / Rom Harré.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2009.
Descrizione fisica:
XIII, 322 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Preface. 1. Instruments and apparatus: tools for experimenting 2. Detecting: hyenas, frogs, zebra fish and assorted farm animals 3. Measuring: the bodies of kings, fossils, lichen and pollen grains 4. Extending an established domain: dogs, horses, frogs and trees 5. Exploring a new domain: a bad mouse, two chimpanzees and some people 6. Testing hypotheses: more dogs, monkeys and ticks 7. Modelling individuals: yet more dogs, a few mice and one human stomach 8. Modelling worlds: voles, peas, fruit flies, finches and deep oceanic worms 9. Practising deception: spring wheat and midwife toads 10. Inventing novel beings: an imaginary cat and virtual life forms. Reflections: Sites for moral debates. End notes. Index
