Facing Up

Science and Its Cultural Adversaries

Steven Weinberg

  • Steven Weinberg is Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics

Preface

1. Science as a Liberal Art

2. Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of Congressional Testimony

3. Newton's Dream

4. Confronting O'Brien

5. The Heritage of Galileo

6. Nature Itself

7. The Boundaries of Scientific Knowledge

8. The Methods of Science...

and Those by Which We Live

9. Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist

10. Reductionism Redux

11. Physics and History

12. Sokal's Hoax

13. Science and Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange

14. Before the Big Bang

15. Zionism and Its Adversaries

16. The Red Camaro

17. The Non-Revolution of Thomas Kuhn

18. T. S. Kuhn's Non-Revolution: An Exchange

19. The Great Reduction: Physics in the Twentieth Century

20. A Designer Universe?

21. "A Designer Universe?": An Exchange

22. Five and a Half Utopias

23. Looking for Peace in the Science Wars

Sources

Index

  • Cover: Facing Up
  • A photo of the author

Steven Weinberg is Josey Regental Professor of Science and a member of the physics and astronomy departments at the University of Texas, Austin, and is the author of many books. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 and the National Medal of Science in 1991.