| Description |
1 online resource (x, 239 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; SCIENCE AS SALVATION: A modern myth and its meaning; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 SALVATION AND THE ACADEMICS; 2 PROPHECIES, MARXIST AND ANTHROPIC; 3 MINIMALISM DOES NOT WORK; 4 THE FASCINATION OF CHANCE; 5 THE FUNCTION OF FAITH; 6 ENLIGHTENMENT AND INFORMATION; 7 PUTTING NATURE IN HER PLACE; 8 THE REMARKABLE MASCULINE BIRTH OF TIME; 9 UNEXPECTED DIFFICULTIES OF DEICIDE; 10 THE UNINHABITABLE VACUUM; 11 PARSIMONY, INTEGRITY AND PURITANISM; 12 QUESTIONS OF MOTIVATION; 13 THE HUNGER FOR SYNTHESIS; 14 EVOLUTION AND THE APOTHEOSIS OF MAN |
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15 DYSON, ANIMISM AND THE NATURE OF MATTER16 SPACE, FREEDOM AND ROMANCE; 17 THE ANTHROPIC SYNTHESIS; 18 QUANTUM QUANDARIES; 19 CONSERVING THE SPIRIT; NOTES; INDEX OF PROPER NAMES |
| Summary |
What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science |
| Analysis |
Science Philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Philosophy.
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Religion and science.
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SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Religion and science
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Science -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203046890 |
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0203046897 |
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0415107733 |
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9780415107730 |
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0415062713 |
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9780415062718 |
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9781134841165 |
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1134841167 |
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