Facing up : science and its cultural adversaries / Steven Weinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinberg, Steven, 1933-2021.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Each of these essays 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. Together, they afford the general reader the unique pleasure of experiencing the superb sense, understanding, and knowledge of one of the most interesting and forceful scientific minds of our era.ease fill in marketing copy

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Science as a Liberal Art

2. Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of

Congressional Testimony

3. Newton's Dream

4. Confronting O'Brien

5. The Heritage of Galileo

6. Nature Itself

7. The Boundaries of Scientific Knowledge

8. The Methods of Science

and Those by Which We Live

9. Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist

10. Reductionism Redux

11. Physics and History

12. Sokal's Hoax

13. Science and Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange

14. Before the Big Bang

15. Zionism and Its Adversaries

16. The Red Camaro

17. The Non-Revolution of Thomas Kuhn

18. T. S. Kuhn's Non-Revolution: An Exchange

19. The Great Reduction:

Physics in the Twentieth Century

20. A Designer Universe?

21. "A Designer Universe?": An Exchange

22. Five and a Half Utopias

23. Looking for Peace in the Science Wars

Sources

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-674-06640-5

OCLC:

1041187826