Description: Doing Physics will be of special interest to economists, political theorists, anthropologists, and sociologists as well as philosophers of science.
Review Quotes:
"Krieger . . . excellently tells those in our human society outside the physics world how physicists think, plan, and go about understanding nature."--Choice
"This book is a cultural phenomenology of doing physics. It describes the ways physicists actually do their work--their motives, and their ways of making sense of the world--so that outsiders can understand it."--good reads
"This is an important and provocative book, timely and full of insight. Fail to read it, and you may miss out on the physics of the future."--John Gribbin, New Scientist
"This unusual book introduces 'the moves, the rituals, the incantations' physicists invoke as they go about conceptualizing Nature. The lucid-but-loaded writing makes quite complex ideas accessible to the mathless reader. . . . The rewards are a better understanding of how physics is done."--Whole Earth Millennial Catalog
"An excellent [and innovative] book."--Isis
"Not many books about physics have six citations of Adam Smith. Building on the analogy that Nature is like an economic system, Krieger provides a novel analysis of how physicists construct models of the world. A fascinating insight into the way scientists think."--Dick Easterlin, University of Southern California