The Natures of ScienceFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1989 - 264 páginas A too swift examination, for the benefit evidently of fairly naive readers, of broad philosophical and historical themes in the development of science. The ten chapters are grouped by pairs under five topical heads, which treat respectively the philosophical, aesthetic, cultural, methodological, scientific nature of science. Mathematical material encountered in the final chapter ("Classical duality in modern physics") is likely to be considered off-putting by many of the intended readers. Rather awkwardly composed, though attractively printed and bound. The author is chairman of the Physics Department at the University of the West Indies. (NW) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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| 43 | |
Aesthetics in the History of Scientific Theories | 63 |
Formal and Connotative Aesthetic Elements in Physical Theories | 82 |
Science as Method | 107 |
Time and Reality in Eliot and Einstein | 130 |
The Categorical Questions in Science | 153 |
Pulsar Research as Normal Science | 173 |
From Scientia to Science | 199 |
Classical Duality in Modern Physics | 218 |
Notes | 230 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 261 |
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