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9780198517757

Nature's Imagination The Frontiers of Scientific Vision

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198517757

  • ISBN10:

    0198517750

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-03-30
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Scientific reductionism, often defined as a method of understanding the whole by examining the parts, has had some spectacular success since the early nineteenth century, and is deemed to impose a deterministic non-anthropocentric immutable nature on the Universe. In the later twentiethcentury, many discoveries and hypotheses in both biological and cosmological systems have forced a re-evaluation of the scientist's traditional mind set. Eminent scientists from across the spectrum of endeavour examine and discuss thse issues, and give illuminating examples.

Author Biography


About the Editor:
John Cornwell is Director of the Science and Human Dimension Project, Jesus College, Cambridge University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: the Scientist as rebel
Must mathematical physics be reductionist
Randomness in arithmetic and the decline and fall of reductionism in pure mathematics
Theories of Everything
Intertheoretic reduction: a neuroscientist's field-guide
Neural Darwinism: The brain as a selectional system
A new vision of the mind
The limitless power of science
Reductive megalomania
Artificial intelligence and human dignity
On computabilism and physicalism: some sub-problems
Knowledge representation and myth
Memory and the individual soul: against silly reductionism
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