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The Island of Knowledge : the Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning.
Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of allHow much can we know about the world? In this book, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of allHow much can we know about the world? In this book, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know. Gleiser shows that by aband. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (369 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780465080731 0465080731 9780465031719 0465031714 9781306836975 1306836972 |