8. SCIENCE AND SOCIETY 



Some historians of science are interested in the many complex questions con- 

 cerned with the impact of society upon science and with the impact of science upon 

 society. The following books deal with those questions, but they are not absolutely 

 separate from the books deaUng with the philosophy of science. The philosophy of 

 science and the sociology of science^ are two overlapping fields; the nature and 

 extent of the overlapping vary with each author. 



Baker, John Randal ( 1900- ) : 



1943: The scientific life (154 p.. New York; Isis 35, 191-92). 



1945: Science and the planned state ( 120 p., London; Isis 36, 224; 37, 250). 



English biochemist, leading opponent of "planning" in science. — See also Mees. 



Bennett, Jesse Lee ( 1885- ) : 



1942: The diffusion of science ( 150 p., Baltimore; Isis 34, 374). 



Bernal, John Desmond ( 1901- ) : 



1929: The world, the flesh and the devil; an enquiry into the future of the three 

 enemies of the rational soul (96 p., London). 



1939: The social function of science (498 p., London). 



1949: The freedom of necessity (448 p., London). 



English physicist, Marxist. 



Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart: 



1949: Fear, war and the bomb, military and political consequences of atomic 

 energy (252 p., New York; Isis 41, 86). 

 English physicist. 



Bridgman, Percy Williams ( 1882- ) : 



1938: The intelligent individual and society (312 p.. New York; Isis 30, 310-12, 

 37, 128). 



American physicist. 



Bryson, Lyman ( 1888- ) : 



1947: Science and freedom (202 p.. New York). 

 American educator. 



Bush, Vannevar ( 1890- ) : 



1946: Endless horizons (191 p., Washington, D. C; Isis 37, 250). 



The author is a mathematician and engineer, president of the Carnegie Institute 

 of Washington. 



Coates, J. B.: 



1949: The crisis of the human person (256 p., London). 



Cohen, I. Bernard ( 1914- ) : 



1948: Science, servant of man. A layman's primer for the age of science (376 p., 

 8 pi., Boston; Isis 40, 73-75). 



The author is professor of the history of science in Harvard University. 



Crowther, James Gerald ( 1899- ) : 



1930: Science in Soviet Russia (128 p., 13 pi., London), 

 1936: Soviet science (352 p., London; Isis 27, 90-92). 



^ What I call here sociology of science is implicitly defined in the preceding sentence; it is 

 somewhat different from the Wissenssoziologie about which see Robert K. Merton: The sociology 

 of knowledge (Isis 27, 493-503, 1937). Wissenssoziologie is more ambitious from the meta- 

 physical and epistemological point of view than my sociology of science. 



