Facing up: science and its cultural adversaries

By: Weinberg, StevenMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, US: Harvard University Press, [c2003]Edition: 2nd EdDescription: 306 pISBN: 9780674011205Online resources: Table of Contents
Contents:
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
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.
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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

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.

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