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The Blind Spot : Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty /
In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers--and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by embracing science's inherent ambiguities and parad...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The revelation of uncertainty
- The blind spot
- The blind spot revealed
- Certainty or wonder?
- Crisis!
- Ambiguity
- Self-reference : the human element in science
- The mystery of number
- Science as the ambiguous search for unity
- The still point
- Conclusion : living in a world of uncertainty.