Nature's Imagination: Frontiers of Scientific Vision - Hardcover

Cornwell, John

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9780198517757: Nature's Imagination: Frontiers of Scientific Vision

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ISBN 10: 0198517750 ISBN 13: 9780198517757

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

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Scientific reductionism, often defined as a method of understanding the whole by examining the parts, has had some spectacular success since the early 19th century, and is deemed to impose a deterministic non-anthropocentric immutable nature on the Universe. In the later 20th century, many discoveries and hypotheses in both biological and cosmological systems have forced a re-evaluation of the scientist's traditional mind set. Eminent scientists come together in this volume to examine and discuss these issues, and to give illuminating examples.

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"All the components of a long-running blockbuster are here in abundance....A collection of intellectual vignettes welded together into a drama that anyone interested in complex systems and the philosophy will want to read and savor....As the wise old sage Freeman Dyson states in the introductory chapter, 'Science is an art form and not a philosophical method.' This book is one of the strongest testaments to that belief. Read and enjoy."--Nature "All the components of a long-running blockbuster are here in abundance....A collection of intellectual vignettes welded together into a drama that anyone interested in complex systems and the philosophy will want to read and savor....As the wise old sage Freeman Dyson states in the introductory chapter, 'Science is an art form and not a philosophical method.' This book is one of the strongest testaments to that belief. Read and enjoy."--Nature "All the components of a long-running blockbuster are here in abundance....A collection of intellectual vignettes welded together into a drama that anyone interested in complex systems and the philosophy will want to read and savor....As the wise old sage Freeman Dyson states in the introductory chapter, 'Science is an art form and not a philosophical method.' This book is one of the strongest testaments to that belief. Read and enjoy."--Nature

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