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Science and literature : bridging the two cultures / David L. Wilson and Zack Bowen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, David L., 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature and science.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2001]
- Contents:
- Origins
- How to do science
- Can there be a science of humans?
- Darwinism, and knowledge and power: historical perspectives and politics in science and the humanities
- Darwin and The French lieutenant's woman
- Uncertainty: pt. 1. Uncertainty, bias, determinism, and free will ; pt. 2. Language and uncertainty
- Preparing for Pynchon: thermodynamics, Maxwell's demon, information, and meaning
- Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot49
- Perception and reality: pt. 1. Human perception ; pt. 2. Reality and representation
- Revolutions in science
- Cycles and history/Yeats
- Ethics and morality in science and technology
- Brave new world
- Summary
- Appendix A: Science and literature- the course
- Appendix B: The science gap.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-246) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813022835
- OCLC:
- 47739595
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