Facing Up

Science and Its Cultural Adversaries

Steven Weinberg

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$39.00 • £33.95 • €35.95

ISBN 9780674011205

Publication Date: 04/30/2003

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306 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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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
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Index

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