Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon : From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science /
During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shift occurred because naturalistic science was distinct from and superior to theistic science. Yet as Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon reveals,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Religious Lives
- Chapter 2. The Uniformity of Natural Laws
- Chapter 3. The Limits of Science
- Chapter 4. The Goals of Science Education: The Working Men's College
- Chapter 5. Intellectual Freedom
- Chapter 6. Free Will and Natural Laws
- Chapter 7. How the Naturalists "Won"
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index