Nature and the Greeks and Science and humanism
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the te...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Canto classics. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4561006x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Roger Penrose; NATURE AND THE GREEKS; I The motives for returning to ancient thought; II The competition, reason v. senses; III The Pythagoreans; IV The Ionian Enlightenment; V The religion of Xenophanes. Heraclitus of Ephesus; VI The Atomists; VII What are the special features?; Bibliography; SCIENCE AND HUMANISM; Preface; The spiritual bearing of science on life; The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import; A radical change in our ideas of matter; Form, not substance, the fundamental concept.
- The nature of our 'models'Continuous description and causality; The intricacy of the continuum; The makeshift of wave mechanics; The alleged break-down of the barrier between subject and object; Atoms or quanta-the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum; Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance?; The bar to prediction, according to Niels Bohr; Literature.
