Preface ......................................................... v
1 About Science 1: Basics—Knowledge, Nature, Science and
Scimat ....................................................... 1
Lui Lam
2 About Science 2: Philosophy, History,Sociology and
Communication ............................................... 50
Lui Lam
PART I PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE .................................. 101
3 Towards a Phenomenological Philosophy of Science ........... 103
Guo-Sheng Wu
4 The Predicament of Scientific Culture in Ancient China ..... 116
Hong-Sheng Wang
5 What Do Scientists Know! ................................... 137
Nigel Sanitt
6 How to Deal with the Whole: Two Kinds of Holism in
Methodology ................................................ 147
Jin-Yang Liu
PART II HISTORY OF SCIENCE .................................... 175
7 Helicobacter. The Ease and Difficulty of a New Discovery ... 177
Robin Warren
8 Science in Victorian Era: New Observations on Two Old
Theses ..................................................... 185
Dun Liu
9 Medical Studies in Portugal around 1911 .................... 193
Maria Burguete
10 The Founding of the International Liquid Crystal Society ... 209
Lui Lam
PART III SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE ................................. 241
11 Three Waves of Science Studies ............................. 243
Harry Collins
12 Solitons and Revolution in China: 1978-1983 ................ 253
Lui Lam
13 Scientific Culture in Contemporary China ................... 290
Bing Liu and Mei-Fang Zhang
PART IV COMMUNICATION OF SCIENCE .............................. 305
14 Science Communication: A History and Review ................ 307
Peter Broks
15 Popular-Science Writings in Early Modern China ............. 330
Lin Yin
PART V OTHER SCIENCE MATTERS .................................. 347
16 Understanding Art through Science: From Socrates to the
Contextual Brain ........................................... 349
Kajsa Berg
17 Spy Video Games after 9/11: Narrative and Pleasure ......... 371
Ting-Ting Wang
18 Statistical Physics for Humanists: A Tutorial .............. 383
Dietrich Stauffer
Acknowledgments ............................................... 407
Contributors .................................................. 409
Index ......................................................... 415
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