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Science and poetry /

A much needed and clear investigation of why and how science has so powerfully shaped the way we understand ourselves, our behaviour towards others and our place in the world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Colección:Routledge classics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Visions of rationality
  • The sources of thought
  • Knowledge considered as weed-killer
  • Rationality and rainbows
  • The shape of disillusion
  • Atomistic visions: the quest for permanence
  • Memes and other unusual life-forms
  • Mind and body: the end of apartheid
  • Putting our selves together again
  • Living in the world
  • The strange persistence of fatalism
  • Chessboards and presidents of the immortals
  • Doing science on purpose
  • One world, but a big one
  • A plague on both their houses
  • Being scientific about our selves
  • In what kind of world?
  • Widening responsibilities
  • The problem of humbug
  • Individualism and the concept of Gaia
  • Gods and goddesses: the role of wonder
  • Why there is such a thing as society
  • Paradoxes of sociobiology and social Darwinism
  • Mythology, rhetoric and religion.