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Patterns or Principles & Other Essays

by Jaki, Stanley L.

ISBN13:
9781882926091
ISBN10:
1882926099
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1994-09-01
Publisher: Isi Books
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Summary

These essays deal, from various perspectives, with the central confrontation within modern culture of two irreconcilable philosophies of life: one centered on patterns of thinking that obey only the fashions of the moment, the other steeped in principles whose truth is not dependent on momentary preferences.

Introduction

vii

Patterns or Principles: The Pseudoscientific Roots of Law's Debacle

(25)

Ecology or Ecologism?

(24)

Socrates, or the Baby and the Bathwater

(13)

Medieval Christianity: Its Creativity in Science and Technology

(24)

Telltale Remarks and a Tale Untold

(27)

Determinism and Reality

114

(31)

The History of Science and Science in History

145

(16)

Science: Western or What?

161

(18)

Gilson and Science

179

(21)

The Nonsense and Sense of Science

200

(4)

The Mind: Its Physics or Physiognomy?

204

(10)

The Last Word in Physics

214

(17)

Index of Names

231

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