Einstein's space and Van Gogh's sky : physical reality and beyond / by Lawrence LeShan and Henry Margenau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LeShan, Lawrence, 1920-2020.

Contributor:

Margenau, Henry, 1901-1997.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Science--Methodology.

Reality.

Reductionism.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 268 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Einstein's space & Van Gogh's sky

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., [1982]

Contents:

Part I. The Meanings of Reality. Alternate realities; Structures of reality: domains and realms

Part II. The Search for Scientific Truth. Varieties of human experience; The meaning of "truth"; Guiding principles in the search for scientific theories; How scientific theories are verified; Reductionism in physical science, I; Reductionism, II; The worlds of Einstein and Heisenberg; Reductionism, III: Transcendence with compatibility; Casuality, epistemic feedback, purpose

Part III. Domains of the Social Sciences. The domains of the social scientist; The domains of art; The worlds of color of Newton and Goethe: two domains of reality; The domains of the parapsychologist; The domain of ethics; The domain of consciousness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1982".

ISBN:

0025704605

OCLC:

8222083