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

By: Weinberg, Steven, 1933-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001Description: xi, 283 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 067400647X (hbk)Subject(s): ScienceDDC classification: 500
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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