Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, William Kearney and Anne-Marie Mazza
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827484
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
From nuclear energy to recombinant DNA, the scientific community developed practices to increase adherence to its norms. This volume explores the state of AI, draws lessons from the ways in which previous technologies were developed and deployed, catalogs efforts to govern AI, and suggests methods for science to harness AI’s potential responsibly.
Tom Paine’s Iron Bridge explains why, at the height of his powers, the American Revolution’s most effective propagandist abandoned politics to pursue cutting-edge architectural technology. In iron bridges, Paine believed he had a solution to the regional political divisions threatening the ideals of the revolution he had done so much to advance.
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, recognizes everyone’s right to “share in scientific advancement and its benefits.” Helle Porsdam analyzes the legal stature of this right, the consequences of not establishing it as fundamental, and its connection to global cultural rights.
Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic reveals how Europeans and Native Americans devised ways to understand the environment. Drawing on paintings, oral history, early printed books, and other cultural artifacts, Peter C. Mancall argues that human understanding of nature played a central role in the emergence of the modern world.
How did we come to endanger the very future of life on Earth in our heedless pursuit of wealth and happiness? Laid Waste! answers that question with a 350-year review of the roots of an American culture of exploitation that has left us free, rich, and without an honest sense of how this came to be.
Edited by Svetozar Y. Minkov and Bernhardt L. Trout
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812249934
Pub Date: April 2018
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
Ranging from ancient Greek thought to contemporary quantum mechanics, Mastery of Nature investigates to what extent nature can be conquered to further human ends and to what extent such mastery is compatible with human flourishing.
Laura Ephraim reveals the origins and limits of scientists' remarkably resilient yet controversial authority to speak for nature. Through innovative readings of Descartes, Hobbes, Arendt, and others, she uncovers fresh insights into contemporary dilemmas surrounding the place of scientists in public life and environmental politics.
The second edition of The Plants of Pennsylvania is the authoritative guide to identifying the nearly 3,400 species of flowering plants, ferns, and gymnosperms native or naturalized in the Commonwealth. It features a complete reorganization into a genetic scheme that reflects recent advances in our understanding of plant relationships.
Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that Benjamin Franklin—scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman—played in the development of the healing arts, giving preventive and bedside medicine, hospital care, and even personal hygiene a modern look that changed the face of medical care in both America and Europe.
In this dual biography Thomas P. Slaughter investigates the natural world of early America as seen through the eyes of John and William Bartram, the father and son botanical explorers who sought purpose and meaning in the wilderness of eighteenth-century North America.
