TY - BOOK AU - Russell,Bertrand TI - The scientific outlook SN - 041524997X U1 - 501 PY - 2001/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Philosophy and science N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -