Facing up science and its cultural adversaries
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| Formato: | 991009667938206719 |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge (Mass.) :
Harvard University Press
2001
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conté: Science as a liberal art
- Newtonianism, reductionism, and the art of congressional testimony
- Newton's dream
- Confronting O'Brien
- The heritage of Galileo
- Nature itself
- The boundaries of scientific knowledge
- The methods of science... and those by which we live
- Night thoughts of a quantum physicist
- Reductionism redux
- Physics and history
- Sokal's hoax
- Science and Sokal's hoax: an exchange
- Before the Big Bang
- Zionism and its adversaries
- The red camaro
- The non-revolution of Thomas Kuhn
- T. S. Kuhn's non-revolution: an exchange
- The great reduction: physics in the Twentieth Century
- A designer universe?
- "A designer universe?": an exchange
- Five and a half utopias
- Looking for peace in the science wars
