All about science : philosophy, history, sociology & communication / Maria Burguete, Bento da Rocha Cabral Institute for Scientific Research, Portugal, Lui Lam, San Jose State University, USA, editors.

New Jersey : World Scientific, [2014]

xx, 434 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Machine generated contents note: 1. About Science 1: Basics---Knowledge, Nature, Science and Scimat / Lui Lam -- 2. About Science 2: Philosophy, History, Sociology and Communication / Lui Lam -- pt. I PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 3. Towards a Phenomenological Philosophy of Science / Guo-Sheng Wu -- 4. The Predicament of Scientific Culture in Ancient China / Hong-Sheng Wang -- 5. What Do Scientists Know! / Nigel Sanitt -- 6. How to Deal with the Whole: Two Kinds of Holism in Methodology / Jin-Yang Liu -- pt. II HISTORY OF SCIENCE -- 7. Helicobacter: The Ease and Difficulty of a New Discovery / Robin Warren -- 8. Science in Victorian Era: New Observations on Two Old Theses / Dun Liu -- 9. Medical Studies in Portugal around 1911 / Maria Burguete -- 10. The Founding of the International Liquid Crystal Society / Lui Lam -- pt. III SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE -- 11. Three Waves of Science Studies / Harry Collins -- 12. Solitons and Revolution in China: 1978--1983 / Lui Lam.

Contents note continued: 13. Scientific Culture in Contemporary China / Mei-Fang Zhang -- pt. IV COMMUNICATION OF SCIENCE -- 14. Science Communication: A History and Review / Peter Broks -- 15. Popular-Science Writings in Early Modern China / Lin Yin -- pt. V OTHER SCIENCE MATTERS -- 16. Understanding Art through Science: From Socrates to the Contextual Brain / Kajsa Berg -- 17. Spy Video Games after 9/11: Narrative and Pleasure / Ting-Ting Wang -- 18. Statistical Physics for Humanists: A Tutorial / Dietrich Stauffer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.