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.
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2001.
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| Serie: | Routledge classics.
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| Länkar: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=70520 |
Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.