Science, Truth, And Meaning: From Wonder To Understanding - Softcover

Webb, Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9811233071 ISBN 13: 9789811233074

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Science, Truth, and Meaning presents a scientific and philosophical examination of our place in the world. It also celebrates how diverse, scientific knowledge is interconnected and reducible to common foundations.

The book focuses on aspects of scientific truth that relate to our understanding of reality, and confronts whether truth is absolute or relative to what we are. Hence, it assesses the meaning of the scientific deductions we have made and how they have profoundly influenced our conception of life and existence.

The subtitle is "From Wonder to Understanding", which is a paraphrased quote from Einstein, who said that the search for scientific truth is "... a continual flight from wonder to understanding".

In addressing the goal of advancing our understanding of our place in the world, this book also reveals the development and details of diverse sciences, their connections and achievements, and that while perhaps the same fundamental questions exist, they are seen in the light of an ever-refined scientific perspective on reality.

Why the book is needed: many popular science books have been written, aimed at different levels of subject expertise, and nearly all treat their specific subject in isolation. Few attempt to link different sciences to their common foundations, and those that do are written by physicists. Since human knowledge is derived by, and relates to, the biological organism that human beings are, then such a book written from a biological perspective represents a novel perspective on the integration of science, and addresses new questions. This is such a book.

Impressive aspects: the depth, breadth, consistency, and clarity of the work.

About this title

About the Author

Benjamin Webb is a protein engineer working in the filed of cancer immunotherapy in the biotechnology sector. He has held positions in Imperial College London, and University college London, and pulished high impact acticles in the fiels of cancer, asthma, AIDS and nanotechnology.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811233071
• ISBN 13: 9789811233074
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720