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Facing up :science and its cultural ...

Weinberg, Steven, (1933-)

Facing up :science and its cultural adversaries /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	500
書名/作者:	Facing up : : science and its cultural adversaries // Steven Weinberg.
作者:	Weinberg, Steven,
出版者:	Cambridge, Mass. : : Harvard University Press,, 2003, c2001.
面頁冊數:	xi, 283 p. ;; 23 cm.
標題:	Science.
ISBN:	9780674011205 (pbk.) :
ISBN:	0674011201 (pbk.)
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
內容註:	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.
摘要、提要註:	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 all science forevermore. He is also a powerful writer of prose that can illuminate--and sting...He recently received the Lewis Thomas Prize, awarded to the researcher who best embodies 'the scientist as poet.'" Both the brilliant scientist and the provocative writer are fully present in this book as Weinberg pursues his principal passions, theoretical physics and a deeper understanding of the culture, philosophy, history, and politics of science. Each of these essays, which span fifteen years, struggles in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings. Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adversaries, these essays express a viewpoint that is reductionist, realist, and devoutly secular. Each is preceded by a new introduction that explains its provenance and, if necessary, brings it up to date.

Facing up :science and its cultural adversaries /
Weinberg, Steven,1933-

Facing up :science and its cultural adversaries /Steven Weinberg. - 1st Harvard University Press paperback ed. - Cambridge, Mass. :Harvard University Press,2003, c2001. - xi, 283 p. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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 all science forevermore. He is also a powerful writer of prose that can illuminate--and sting...He recently received the Lewis Thomas Prize, awarded to the researcher who best embodies 'the scientist as poet.'" Both the brilliant scientist and the provocative writer are fully present in this book as Weinberg pursues his principal passions, theoretical physics and a deeper understanding of the culture, philosophy, history, and politics of science. Each of these essays, which span fifteen years, struggles in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings. Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adversaries, these essays express a viewpoint that is reductionist, realist, and devoutly secular. Each is preceded by a new introduction that explains its provenance and, if necessary, brings it up to date.

ISBN: 9780674011205 (pbk.) :NTD 1,040Subjects--Topical Terms:

206730
Science.

LC Class. No.: Q171 / .W419 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 500

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