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Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science

Door E. Brian Davies

Categorie
Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer
#351293-ZB13
Titel
Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science
Auteur
Davies, E. Brian
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2010
ISBN10
0198704992
ISBN13
9780198704997
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
This book discusses deep problems about our place in the world with a minimum of jargon. It argues that 'absolutist' ideas dating back to Plato continue to mislead generations of mathematicians, physicists, and theologians, and reveals the underlying reasons for the current conflicts between science and religion.
In the follow-up to his acclaimed Science in the Looking Glass, Brian Davies discusses deep problems about our place in the world, using a minimum of technical jargon. The book argues that 'absolutist' ideas of the objectivity of science, dating back to Plato, continue to mislead generations of both theoretical physicists and theologians. It explains that the multi-layered nature of our present descriptions of the world is unavoidable, not because of anything about the world, but... (Lees verder) because of our own human natures. It tries to rescue mathematics from the singular and exceptional status that it has been assigned, as much by those who understand it as by those who do not. Working throughout from direct quotations from many of the important contributors to its subject, it concludes with a penetrating criticism of many of the recent contributions to the often acrimonious debates about science and religions.
Pagina's
250
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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