Facing up:science and its cultural adversaries
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Harvard University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
Publication Dates: | 2003. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xi, 283 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: | 0674011201 |
Index Number: | N |
CLC: | N |
Call Number: | N/W423 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. |