Описание: Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth?To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what`s out there." In The Island of Knowledge , physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, the main tool we use to find answers, is fundamentally limited.These limits to our knowledge arise both from our tools of exploration and from the nature of physical reality: the speed of light, the uncertainty principle, the impossibility of seeing beyond the cosmic horizon, the incompleteness theorem, and our own limitations as an intelligent species. Recognizing limits in this way, Gleiser argues, is not a deterrent to progress or a surrendering to religion. Rather, it frees us to question the meaning and nature of the universe while affirming the central role of life and ourselves in it. Science can and must go on, but recognizing its limits reveals its true mission: to know the universe is to know ourselves.Telling the dramatic story of our quest for understanding, The Island of Knowledge offers a highly original exploration of the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in history, from Plato to Einstein, and how they affect us today. An authoritative, broad-ranging intellectual history of our search for knowledge and meaning, The Island of Knowledge is a unique view of what it means to be human in a universe filled with mystery.
Автор: Sytse Strijbos; Andrew Basden Название: In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology ISBN: 1441940707 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441940704 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20263.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides a fascinating reading experience for anyone interested in an inquiring relationship between technical progress and the quality of the human condition. The book also manages to build accessible bridges over the gulf that tends to separate the philosophical language from the `real` concerns of technologists.
Автор: Craver Carl F Название: In Search of Mechanisms ISBN: 022603965X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226039657 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers an account of how biologists discover mechanisms. Drawing on examples from across the life sciences and through the centuries, the authors compile a toolbox of strategies that biologists have used and will use again to reveal the mechanisms that produce, underlie, or maintain the phenomena characteristic of living things.
Автор: D. Shapere Название: Reason and the Search for Knowledge ISBN: 9027716412 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027716415 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 38433.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Schulkin Название: Pragmatism and the Search for Coherence in Neuroscience ISBN: 1137526726 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137526724 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10480.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: We have known for over a thousand years that the brain underlies behavioral expression, but effective scientific study of the brain is only very recent. Two things converge in this book: a great respect for neuroscience and its many variations, and a sense of investigation and inquiry demythologized. Think of it as foraging for coherence.
Автор: Craver Carl F Название: In Search of Mechanisms ISBN: 022603979X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226039794 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers an account of how biologists discover mechanisms. Drawing on examples from across the life sciences and through the centuries, the authors compile a toolbox of strategies that biologists have used and will use again to reveal the mechanisms that produce, underlie, or maintain the phenomena characteristic of living things.
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