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Facing up : science and its cultural adversaries /
In a New York Times profile, James Glanz remarked, "Steven Weinberg is perhaps the world's most authoritative proponent of the idea that physics is hurtling toward a "final theory," a complete explanation of nature's particles and forces that will endure as the bedrock of al...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2003, ©2001.
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| Edición: | 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.