Facing up : science and its cultural adversaries / Steven Weinberg
| رقم التسجيلة | 2682 |
| نوع المادة | book |
| ردمك | 067400647X |
| رقم الطلب |
Q171.W419 |
| المؤلف | Weinberg, Steven |
| العنوان | Facing up : science and its cultural adversaries / Steven Weinberg |
| بيانات النشر | Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2001. |
| الوصف المادي | xi, 283 p : 24 cm |
| ملاحظات |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| المحتويات / النص |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Science as a Liberal Art -- 2. Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of -- Congressional Testimony -- 3. Newton''s Dream -- 4. Confronting O''Brien -- 5. The Heritage of Galileo -- 6. Nature Itself -- 7. The Boundaries of Scientific Knowledge -- 8. The Methods of Science-- and Those by Which We Live -- 9. Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist -- 10. Reductionism Redux -- 11. Physics and History -- 12. Sokal''s Hoax -- 13. Science and Sokal''s Hoax: An Exchange -- 14. Before the Big Bang -- 15. Zionism and Its Adversaries -- 16. The Red Camaro -- 17. The Non-Revolution of Thomas Kuhn -- 18. T. S. Kuhn''s Non-Revolution: An Exchange -- 19. The Great Reduction: -- Physics in the Twentieth Century -- 20. A Designer Universe? -- 21. ''A Designer Universe?'': An Exchange -- 22. Five and a Half Utopias -- 23. Looking for Peace in the Science Wars -- Sources -- Index |
| المواضيع | Science - Study and teaching |
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| 050 | |a Q171.W419 |
| 100 | |a Weinberg, Steven |
| 245 | |a Facing up : |b science and its cultural adversaries / |c Steven Weinberg |
| 260 | |a Cambridge, Mass. |b Harvard University Press, |c 2001 |
| 300 | |a xi, 283 p.; |c 24 cm |
| 500 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 505 | |a Machine generated contents note: 1. Science as a Liberal Art -- 2. Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of -- Congressional Testimony -- 3. Newton''s Dream -- 4. Confronting O''Brien -- 5. The Heritage of Galileo -- 6. Nature Itself -- 7. The Boundaries of Scientific Knowledge -- 8. The Methods of Science-- and Those by Which We Live -- 9. Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist -- 10. Reductionism Redux -- 11. Physics and History -- 12. Sokal''s Hoax -- 13. Science and Sokal''s Hoax: An Exchange -- 14. Before the Big Bang -- 15. Zionism and Its Adversaries -- 16. The Red Camaro -- 17. The Non-Revolution of Thomas Kuhn -- 18. T. S. Kuhn''s Non-Revolution: An Exchange -- 19. The Great Reduction: -- Physics in the Twentieth Century -- 20. A Designer Universe? -- 21. ''A Designer Universe?'': An Exchange -- 22. Five and a Half Utopias -- 23. Looking for Peace in the Science Wars -- Sources -- Index |
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