The end of science: facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the scientific age
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| Beschreibung: | Bibliogr. S. 295 - 298. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
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| ISBN: | 9780349109268 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Introduction: Searching for The Answer
1
Roger Penrose s
ambivalence
toward The Answer.
The difference between science and literary criticism.
The anxiety of scientific influence.
What is ironic science?
1 ■
The End of Progress
9
Λ
meeting on the end of belief in science.
Günther
Stenťs
Golden Age.
¡s science a victim of its own success? What physicists really thought
100
years ago,
The apocryphal patent official
Bentley
Glass casts doubt on Vannevar Bush s endless frontier.
Leo Kaäanoff
sees hard times ahead for physics.
Nicholas
Rescheŕs
wishful thinking.
The meaning of Francis Bacons phis
uhnu
Ironic science as negative capability.
2 ■
The End of Philosophy
32
What the skeptics really believe.
Karl Popper finally answers the question:
Ь
falsifiability falsifiable?
Thomas
Kuhn
is hoist on his own paradigm.
Paul Feyerabend, the anarchist of philosophy.
Coim McGinn pronounces philosophy dead.
The meaning of
Фе
ZaMr.
viii
■ Contents
З
«
The End of Physics
60
Sheldon Glashows doubts,
Edward
Witten
on superstrings and aliens.
The pointless final theory of Steven
Weinberg,
Hans Bethes doomsday calculation,
John Wheeler and the it from bit.
David
Bohm,
clarifier
and
mystifier,
Richard Feynman and the revenge of the philosophers,
4 ■
The End of Cosmology
92
The infinite imagination of Stephen Hawking.
David
Schramm,
the big bang s biggest booster.
Doubts among the cosmic priesthood,
Andrei
Lindes
chaotic, fractal, eternally self-reproducing, inflationary universe.
Fred Hoyie, the eternal rebel
WiU cosmology turn into botany?
5 »
The End of Evolutionary Biology
114
Richard
Dawkins,
Darwins
greyhound.
Stephen Jay Goulds view of
Ufe:
shit happens.
Lynn
Margulis
denounces
Gaia.
The organized disorder of Stuart Kauffman.
Stanley Miller ponders the eternally mysterious origin of life,
6 ■
The End of Social Science
143
Edward Wilsons fear of a final theory of sodobiology.
Noam Chomsky on mysteries and puzzles.
The eternal vexation of Clifford Geertz,
7 ■
The End of
Neuroscience
159
Francis Crick, the Mephistopheles of biology, takes on consciousness,
Gerald
Edelman
postures around the
ridale.
John Eccles, the last of the dualists.
Roger Ptnrose and the quasi-quantum mind.
The counterattack of the mysterians.
Contents
m
ix
/5
Daniei
Dennett
a
mysterian?
Marvin
Minskys
fear af single-mindedness.
The triumph of materialism.
8 ■
The End of Chaoplexity
191
What is chaoplexity?
Christopher Langton and the poetry of artificial life.
Per Bak s self-organized criticality.
Cybernetics and other catastrophes.
Philip Anderson on the meaning of More Is Different.
Murray Gett-Mann denies the existence of something
ehe.
Пуа
Prigogine and the end of certainty.
Mitchell
Feigenbaum
is refuted by a table.
9 ■
The End of Limitology
227
Pondering The Limits of Scientific Knowledge in Santa Fe.
A meeting on the Hudson River -with Gregory Chaitin.
Francis Fukuyarna
disses
science.
The Star Trek factor.
10 -
Scientific Theology, or The End of
Machine Science
247
The out-of-sight prophecy ofj. D.
Bernal
Hans Moravecs squabbling mind children.
Freeman Dysons principle of maximum diversity.
The bunkrapt vision of Frank Tipler.
What would the Omega Point want to do?
Epilogue: Tbe Terror of God
261
A nrybtiCAi experience.
The meaning of the Omega Point.
Charles Hartshorne and the Sodnian heresy.
Why scientists are ambivalent toward truth.
Is God chewing his fingernails?
χ
■ Contents
Afterword: Loose Ends
267
fust Another End of Booh
Is The End of Science Antiscience.
Just a Definition Thing.
What About Applied Science?
What About the Human Mind?
The Chaoplexity Gambit.
Life on Mars?
The Woo-Woo Stuff.
Acknowledgements
283
Notes
285
Selected Bibliography
311
Index
315
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