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Science and literature : bridging the two cultures / David L. Wilson and Zack Bowen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xiii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813022835
  • 9780813022833
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801 21
LOC classification:
  • PN55 .W55 2001
Contents:
1. Origins -- 2. How to Do Science -- 3. Can There Be a Science of Humans? -- 4. Darwinism, and Knowledge and Power: Historical Perspectives and Politics in Science and the Humanities -- 5. Darwin and The French Lieutenant's Woman -- 6. Uncertainty. Pt. 1. Uncertainty, Bias, Determinism, and Free Will. Pt. 2. Language and Uncertainty -- 7. Preparing for Pynchon: Thermodynamics, Maxwell's Demon, Information, and Meaning -- 8. Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 -- 9. Perception and Reality. Pt. 1. Human Perception. Pt. 2. Reality and Representation -- 10. Revolutions in Science -- 11. Cycles and History/Yeats -- 12. Ethics and Morality in Science and Technology -- 13. Brave New World -- 14. Summary -- App. A. Science and Literature - The Course -- App. B. The Science Gap.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 801 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A408183B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246) and index.

1. Origins -- 2. How to Do Science -- 3. Can There Be a Science of Humans? -- 4. Darwinism, and Knowledge and Power: Historical Perspectives and Politics in Science and the Humanities -- 5. Darwin and The French Lieutenant's Woman -- 6. Uncertainty. Pt. 1. Uncertainty, Bias, Determinism, and Free Will. Pt. 2. Language and Uncertainty -- 7. Preparing for Pynchon: Thermodynamics, Maxwell's Demon, Information, and Meaning -- 8. Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 -- 9. Perception and Reality. Pt. 1. Human Perception. Pt. 2. Reality and Representation -- 10. Revolutions in Science -- 11. Cycles and History/Yeats -- 12. Ethics and Morality in Science and Technology -- 13. Brave New World -- 14. Summary -- App. A. Science and Literature - The Course -- App. B. The Science Gap.

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