Intelligible design : a realistic approach to the philosophy and history of science /
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World Scientific,
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Publisher Address: | New Jersey : |
Publication Dates: | [2014] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xiv, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: |
9789814447607 : 9814447609 |
Index Number: | Q175 |
CLC: |
N09 N02 |
Call Number: | N02/I611-1 |
Contents: | 1. Modern science in historical perspective. On the origins of modern science / Julio A. Gonzalo -- The post-Renaissance revolution : the New Science / Manuel M. Carreira -- Frank Sherwood Taylor : the man who was converted by Galileo / John Beaumont -- The limits of science / Manuel Alfonseca -- On the intelligibility of quantum mechanics / Julio A. Gonzalo -- Uncertainty, incompleteness, chance, and design / Fernando Sols -- A finite, open and contingent universe / Julio A. Gonzalo -- 2. On the origin and development of life. A brief history of evolutionary thought / Thomas B. Fowler and Daniel Kuebler -- Life's intelligible design / Manuel Alfonseca -- What are the contributions of genetics to the understanding of life? /Nicolás Jouve -- On the human genome in contrast to the Great Apes genome / Nicolás Jouve -- On the evolution controversy / Thomas B. Fowler -- On the riddle of man's origin / Manuel M. Carreira -- On science, history and free will / Lucía Guerra-Menéndez. |