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The scientific outlook / Bertrand Russell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2001Edition: Second editionDescription: xxx, 228 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 041524997X
  • 9780415249973
  • 0415249961
  • 9780415249966
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501
Contents:
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.
Review: "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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 501 RUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A255032B

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.

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