The Reception Of Unconventional Science

The issue of perhaps greatest concern to historians of science today is the internalist-externalist dichotomy. This volume directly addresses that issue, at the same time providing a context for the serious study of heterodox science and scientific theories.

Autorentext

Seymour H. Mauskopf, associate professor in the Department of History at Duke University, specializes in history of science, particularly of 18th and 19th century physical science, and of parapsychology. A member of the History of Science Society, he is the author of a monograph entitled Crystals and Compounds: Molecular Structure and Composition in Nineteenth Century French Science (Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., Vol. 66, Pt. 3, 1976), and articles on the history of 18th and 19th century chemistry and on the history of parapsychology.

Inhalt

Introduction -- The Reception of an Acausal Quantum Mechanics in Germany and Britain -- The Reception and Acceptance of Continental Drift Theory as a Rational Episode in the History of Science -- Reception of Acupuncture by the Scientific Community -- The Controversy Over Statistics in Parapsychology 1934 - 1938 -- Discussion