Nature and the Greeks ; and Science and humanism /

Nature and the Greeks ; and Science and humanism /

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Author / Creator:Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961, author.
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (x, 172 pages)
Language:English
Series:Canto classics
Canto classics.
Subject:
Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Social aspects.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Humanism.
Humanism.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Social aspects.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12645318
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Other uniform titles:Container of (work): Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961. Nature and the Greeks.
Container of (work): Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961. Science and humanism.
ISBN:9781139923491
1139923498
9781316129562
131612956X
1107431832
9781107431836
9781316131749
1316131742
9781107431836
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher's web page (Cambridge University Press, viewed November 13, 2014).
Summary:Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the texts of two of Schrödinger's most famous lecture series. 'Nature and the Greeks' offers a comprehensive historical account of the twentieth-century scientific world picture, tracing modern science back to the earliest stages of Western philosophic thought. 'Science and Humanism' addresses some of the most fundamental questions of the century: what is the value of scientific research? And how do the achievements of modern science affect the relationship between material and spiritual matters? A foreword by Roger Penrose sets the lectures in a contemporary context, and affirms they are as relevant today as when they were first published.
Other form:Print version: Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961. 'Nature and the greeks' and 'science and humanism'. [S.l.] : Cambridge Univ Press, 2014 1107431832
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by Roger Penrose; NATURE AND THE GREEKS; I The motives for returning to ancient thought; II The competition, reason v. senses; III The Pythagoreans; IV The Ionian Enlightenment; V The religion of Xenophanes. Heraclitus of Ephesus; VI The Atomists; VII What are the special features?; Bibliography; SCIENCE AND HUMANISM; Preface; The spiritual bearing of science on life; The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import; A radical change in our ideas of matter; Form, not substance, the fundamental concept.
  • The nature of our 'models'Continuous description and causality; The intricacy of the continuum; The makeshift of wave mechanics; The alleged break-down of the barrier between subject and object; Atoms or quanta-the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum; Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance?; The bar to prediction, according to Niels Bohr; Literature.

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