Beyond Science: The Wider Human ContextCambridge University Press, 1998. szept. 17. - 131 oldal Science is very successful in discovering the structure and history of the physical world. However, there is more to be told of the encounter with reality, including the nature of scientific inquiry itself, than can be gained from impersonal experience and experimental test alone. Beyond Science considers the human context in which science operates and pursues that wider understanding which we all seek. It looks to issues of meaning and value, intrinsic to scientific practice but excluded from science's consideration by its own self-denying ordinance. The author raises the question of the significance of the deep mathematical intelligibility of the physical world and its anthropically fruitful history. He considers how we may find responsible ways to use the power that science places in human hands. Science is portrayed as an activity of individuals, pursued within a convivial and truth-seeking community. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Is science enough? | 1 |
Understanding the physical world | 3 |
Philosophical debate | 4 |
Sciences achievement | 7 |
Paradigm shifts | 11 |
Answering the critics | 12 |
Scientific method | 14 |
Critical realism | 18 |
The Anthropic Principle | 80 |
Finetuning | 81 |
A home for life | 84 |
Inflation | 85 |
The carbon principle | 87 |
A philosophical parable | 88 |
Many universes | 89 |
Creation | 91 |
Best explanation | 19 |
Working together | 23 |
Handing on the torch | 25 |
Rivalry and collaboration | 26 |
Fame and fortune | 29 |
The conference circuit | 33 |
The ordinary and the extraordinary | 34 |
Changing direction | 37 |
Memoirs of the great | 39 |
Abdus Salam | 41 |
Murray GellMann | 42 |
Richard Feynman | 45 |
Stephen Hawking | 47 |
What happened to the human mind? | 53 |
Examining the phenomena | 54 |
Thought experiments | 56 |
Subjectivity | 57 |
Evolution | 59 |
A place for the soul | 61 |
Reductionism | 63 |
The computer analogy | 66 |
Some preSocratic flailing about | 69 |
What does it mean? | 75 |
Cosmic fruitfulness | 77 |
Beautiful equations | 79 |
Ultimate questions | 95 |
Lifes destiny | 96 |
The true ultimate | 99 |
Is ought and wonder | 103 |
A moral community | 105 |
Beauty | 106 |
A comprehensive view | 107 |
Ethical values | 108 |
Sociobiology | 109 |
The universe as creation | 112 |
Responsible behaviour | 113 |
Caring for creation | 114 |
Animal rights | 116 |
Sustainable life style | 117 |
The integrity of creation | 118 |
The environment | 120 |
Population growth | 121 |
Gaia | 122 |
Predictive predicament | 123 |
Ethical debate | 124 |
Sciences contribution | 125 |
The end of the matter | 128 |
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Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Beyond Science: The Wider Human Context J. C. Polkinghorne,John Polkinghorne Korlátozott előnézet - 1998 |
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