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Sto caricando le informazioni... Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries (edizione 2003)di Steven Weinberg (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a collection of essays previously published in periodicals like the New York Review of Books, generally concerned with the argument between scientists who assume they are revealing the reality of nature and academics who favor the view that scientific theories are social constructs influenced by prejudice. There is no winner. There are essays about Sokal's hoax, and Thomas Kuhn, with responses to letters written about the articles. The collection format means that Weinberg describes the concepts of physics many times, and it becomes repetitive. ( ) 23 refreshingly smart essays by the physics Nobel winner. No nonsense here about "scientism," antireductionism, or rapprochements with religion. ("Facing up" is the opposite posture from that of prayer!) "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil -- that takes religion. ... One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment." (p 242) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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 Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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