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The end of science : facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the scientific age / John Horgan ; text design by Jack Lenzo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horgan, John, 1953- author.
- Series:
- Helix books The end of science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Basic Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- John Horgan, a science journalist, writes the Cross-check" blog for Scientific American, and directs the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Preface to the 2015 Edition: Rebooting The End of Science
- Introduction: Searching for The Answer
- 1 The End of Progress
- 2 The End of Philosophy
- 3 The End of Physics
- 4 The End of Cosmology
- 5 The End of Evolutionary Biology
- 6 The End of Social Science
- 7 The End of Neuroscience
- 8 The End of Chaoplexity
- 9 The End of Limitology
- 10 Scientific Theology, or The End of Machine Science
- Epilogue: The Terror of God
- Afterword: Loose Ends
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 16, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-465-06592-9
- 0-465-05085-9
- OCLC:
- 905920357
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