The scientific outlook /
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970
The scientific outlook / Bertrand Russell. - Second edition. - xxx, 228 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published: S.l. : s.n., 1949.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Examples of scientific method -- Characteristics of scientific method -- Limitations of scientific method -- Scientific metaphysics -- Science and religion -- Beginnings of scientific technique -- Technique in inanimate nature -- Technique in biology -- Technique in physiology -- Technique in psychology -- Technique in society -- Artificially created societies -- The individual and the whole -- Scientific government -- Education in a scientific society -- Scientific reproduction -- Science and values.
"Russell offers brilliant discussions of many of the major figures in the history of science, including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton and Darwin and considers three questions fundamental to an understanding of science: the nature and scope of scientific knowledge, the increased power over nature that science affords, and the changes in the lives of human beings that result from new forms of science."--BOOK JACKET.
041524997X 9780415249973 0415249961 9780415249966
Philosophy and science
501
The scientific outlook / Bertrand Russell. - Second edition. - xxx, 228 pages ; 21 cm
Originally published: S.l. : s.n., 1949.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Examples of scientific method -- Characteristics of scientific method -- Limitations of scientific method -- Scientific metaphysics -- Science and religion -- Beginnings of scientific technique -- Technique in inanimate nature -- Technique in biology -- Technique in physiology -- Technique in psychology -- Technique in society -- Artificially created societies -- The individual and the whole -- Scientific government -- Education in a scientific society -- Scientific reproduction -- Science and values.
"Russell offers brilliant discussions of many of the major figures in the history of science, including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton and Darwin and considers three questions fundamental to an understanding of science: the nature and scope of scientific knowledge, the increased power over nature that science affords, and the changes in the lives of human beings that result from new forms of science."--BOOK JACKET.
041524997X 9780415249973 0415249961 9780415249966
Philosophy and science
501