The comprehensibility of the universe : a new conception of science /

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Author / Creator:Maxwell, Nicholas, 1937-
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Description:xiii, 316 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3960488
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ISBN:0198237766
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-306) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A New Conception of Science
  • 2. The Failings of Standard Empiricism
  • 3. Comprehensibility
  • 4. Simplicity
  • 5. Induction
  • 6. Evidence, Progress, and Discovery
  • 7. Quantum Theory
  • Mathematical and Physical Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index