The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Edited by I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave. Pp. viii, 282. £3·50, paperback £1. 1970. (Cambridge University Press.)

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Readings and responses 2. Preface to the 1st edition 3. Introduction to the 1st edition 4. Interactive artifacts 5. Plans 6. Situated actions 7. Communicative resources 8. Case and methods 9. Human-machine communication 10. Conclusion to the 1st edition 11. Plans, scripts and other ordering devices 12. Agencies at the interface 13. Figuring the human in AI and robotics 14. Demystifications and re-enchantments of the human-like machine 15. Reconfigurations Notes References.

Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions

Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution' It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood He uses different standpoints from science, economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics and development to explain why we disagree about climate change In this way he shows that climate change, far from being simply an 'issue' or a 'threat', can act as a catalyst to revise our perception of our place in the world Why We Disagree About Climate Change is an important contribution to the ongoing debate over climate change and its likely impact on our lives

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Why we disagree about climate change : understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity

Time is divided by geologists according to marked shifts in Earth's state. Recent global environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Here we review the historical genesis of the idea and assess anthropogenic signatures in the geological record against the formal requirements for the recognition of a new epoch. The evidence suggests that of the various proposed dates two do appear to conform to the criteria to mark the beginning of the Anthropocene: 1610 and 1964. The formal establishment of an Anthropocene Epoch would mark a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and the Earth system.

Defining the Anthropocene

Preface Introduction: challenges to the classical view of science 1. An outline of contructivism 2. Identity and discipline 3. The place of production 4. Speaking for nature 5. Interventions and representations 6. Culture and construction Bibliography.

Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science

Acknowledgments List of illustrations 1. Introduction: science as public culture 2. 'The study of a gentlemen': chemistry as a public science in the Scottish Enlightenment 3. Joseph Priestley and the English Enlightement 4. Airs and their uses 5. The coming of the chemical revolution 6. 'Dr Beddoes's Breath': nitrous oxide and the culmination of Enlightenment medical chemistry 7. Humphry Davy: the public face of genius 8. Analysis, education and the chemical community Bibliography Index.

Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820

Enlightenment inquiries into weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. "British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment" reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the eighteenth century from the systematic recording of the weather, and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population. Enlightened intellectuals hailed climate's role in the development of civilization but acknowledged that human existence depended on natural forces that would never submit to rational control. Reconsidering the Enlightenment through ideas, beliefs, and practices concerning the weather, Jan Golinski aims to reshape our understanding of the movement and its legacy for modern environmental thinking. With its combination of cultural history and the history of science, "British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment" counters the claim that Enlightenment progress set humans against nature, instead revealing that intellectuals of the age drew characteristically modern conclusions about the inextricability of nature and culture.

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

This text explores the complex relations between "enlightened" values and the making of scientific knowledge Here monsters and automata, barometers and botanical gardens, polite academies and boisterous clubs are all given their due place in the landscape of enlightened Europe The contributors examine the production of new disciplines through work with instruments and techniques; consider how institutions of public taste and conversation helped provide a common frame for the study of human and nonhuman natures; and explore the regional operations of scientific culture at the geographical fringes of Europe Implicated in the rise of both fascism and liberal secularism, the moral and political values that shaped the Enlightenment remain controversial today Through careful scrutiny of how these values influenced and were influenced by the concrete practices of its sciences, this book seeks to offer an entirely new sense of the Enlightenment

Jan V. Golinski

Papers

Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science

Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760–1820

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

The Sciences in Enlightened Europe

Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, with a new Preface