Essays in science

Essays on Science Management

Several recent essays are presented on the difficulties scientific research and science researchers have by now been facing for a number of decades due to what goes by the name of ”science management”. Gun Fodder for Science Management ? 0. Develop or Die, and the Role of ”Type I” Research in Science ... It is customary to use the term ”Knowledge Society” for describing the present state of hum...

Essays on Computer Science Education

Science Bought and Sold : Essays in the Economics of Science

There exists a modest but steadily growing literature on the economics of science. Much of it concerns the funding of research and the reaping of societal benefits therefrom, but one also sees increasing interest in applying economic concepts to the conduct of research itself, extending even to matters traditionally falling within philosophy of science. The publication of Science Bought and Sol...

Essays on Islamic philosophy and science

health rules are reminiscent of the Regimen sanitatis Salerni. Some of the material was borrowed, such as proverbs from Dryden, Pope, La Rochefoucauld and Rabelais. Franklin continually added and revised, and some of his statements found their way into common American parlance. The last number (1758) contained a series of adages entitled 'The way to wealth' and this appeared even in Chinese, Ru...

Science and medicine in Islam: a collection of essays

This latest book by Geoffrey Lloyd continues his exploration into the origins of Greek scientific thought. In it he examines the concept of "mentalities" as an explanation for the peculiar development of medicine, mathematics, and science in early Greece, as well as a description of the thought-processes of primitive and less primitive societies. In both respects he finds it seriously flawed. I...