The Scientific Outlook

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415249966
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Outlook written by Bertrand Russell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell's thinking on the promise and threat of scientific progress. Considers questions fundamental to an understanding of science and includes brilliant discussions of scientific figures, including Aristotle, Galileo and Darwin.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351540637
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Outlook written by Bertrand Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A scientific opinion is one which there is some reason to believe is true; an unscientific opinion is one which is held for some reason other than its probable truth.' - Bertrand Russell One of Russell's most important books, this early classic on science illuminates his thinking on the promise and threat of scientific progress. Russell considers three questions fundamental to an understanding of science: the nature and scope of scientific knowledge, the increased power over nature that science affords, and the changes in the lives of human beings that result from new forms of science. With customary wit and clarity, Russell offers brilliant discussions of many major scientific figures, including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton and Darwin. With a new introduciton by David Papineau, King's College, London.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134025939
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Outlook written by Bertrand Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws connecting a number of particular facts. It is, he argues, far superior to art, where much of the knowledge is intangible and assumed. In The Scientific Outlook, Russell delivers one of his most important works, exploring the nature and scope of scientific knowledge, the increased power over nature that science affords and the changes in the lives of human beings that result from new forms of science. Insightful and accessible, this impressive work sees Russell at his very best.

Author : Bentrand Russel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Scientific Outlook written by Bentrand Russel and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yuval Levin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tyranny of Reason written by Yuval Levin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing success of the natural sciences in the modern era has led many thinkers to assume that similar feats of knowledge and power should be achievable in human affairs. That assumption, and the accompanying notion that the methods of modern science ought to be applied to social and political questions, have been at the heart of a number of prominent philosophical schools in the modern age, and much of the politics of the past century. Is the application of scientific logic to the study of human affairs philosophically defensible? Does it aid or hinder our efforts at a genuine understanding of the human world? Why have so many modern ideologies, including those responsible for some of the greatest atrocities of the 20th century, advanced themselves under the banner of science? Why, in other words, do we assume that modern science holds the key to an understanding of human affairs? Are we right to make this assumption? And what does the assumption mean for contemporary society and politics? Tyranny of Reason, which is designed for the interested lay reader and for undergraduate or beginning graduate students in the social sciences, attempts to answer these important questions in the context of the history of philosophy

Author : B. Russell
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5885009082
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Science on Society written by B. Russell and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1951 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317230019
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Science on Society written by Bertrand Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are also many negative aspects of scientific innovation. Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that science offers the world greater well-being than it has ever known, on the condition that prosperity is dispersed; power is diffused by means of a single, world government; birth rates do not become too high; and war is abolished. Russell acknowledges that is a tall order, but remains essentially optimistic. He imagines mankind in a 'race between human skill as to means and human folly as to ends', but believes human society will ultimately choose the path of reason. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by Tim Sluckin.

Author : Herbert Aaron Hauptman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Beauty of Science written by Herbert Aaron Hauptman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264784322
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2021 Times of Crisis and Opportunity written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In immediate responses to the COVID-19 crisis, science and innovation are playing essential roles in providing a better scientific understanding of the virus, as well as in the development of vaccines, treatments and diagnostics. Both the public and private sectors have poured billions of dollars into these efforts, accompanied by unprecedented levels of global cooperation.

Author : W. H. Thorpe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000076954
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Man and Morals written by W. H. Thorpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1965 and written by one of the world’s leading experts in animal behaviour, this book was written just as the impact of DNA on biology, genetics ethology and biophysics was being felt. The book reviews these developments and analyses the affect they have on our view of our own nature and of ethical and moral sense. It is particularly concerned with the impact of DNA and genetics on philosophic thought.