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This unique collection examines 'the acting person' as an important unit of analysis for science studies, using an integrative approach of in-depth case studies to explore the cognitive, social, cultural, and personal dimensions of a series of key figures in the sciences, from Goethe to Kepler to Rachel Carson.

This unique collection examines 'the acting person' as an important unit of analysis for science studies, using an integrative approach of in-depth case studies to explore the cognitive, social, cultural, and personal dimensions of a series of key figures in the sciences, from Goethe to Kepler to Rachel Carson.

This book examines the role of values in psychology, beginning with an acknowledgment that values are an inevitable facet of science. The analysis places the researcher as the principal instrument of any science, while exploring the value of observing, imaginative sense-making, and perspective-taking as essential to both arts and sciences.

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Reveals the complexity and richness of rationality by demonstrating how social relationships, emotion, culture, and identity are implicated in the problem-solving practices of laboratory scientists.

Rational Intuition explores how intuition is implicated in rational activity in its diverse forms. In bringing the philosophical history of intuition into novel dialogue with contemporary philosophical and empirical research, Lisa M. Osbeck and Barbara S. Held invite a comparison of the conceptions and functions of intuition, thereby clarifying and advancing conceptual analysis across disciplines.

This book reveals the complexity and richness of rationality by demonstrating how social relationships, emotion, culture, and identity are implicated in the problem-solving practices of laboratory scientists. The authors gather and analyze interview and observational data from laboratories to show how the practices of laboratory research scientists provide psychological insights.