'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'Cambridge University Press, 13 aug 1996 Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the text of two of Schrödinger's most famous lecture series. 'Nature and the Greeks' offers a comprehensive historical account of the twentieth-century scientific world picture, tracing modern science back to the earliest stages of Western philosophic thought. 'Science and Humanism' addresses some of the most fundamental questions of the century: what is the value of scientific research? and how do the achievements of modern science affect the relationship between material and spiritual matters? A foreword by Roger Penrose sets the lectures in a contemporary context, and affirms they are as relevant today as when they were first published. |
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The competition reason v senses | 22 |
The Pythagoreans | 34 |
The Ionian Enlightenment | 53 |
The religion of Xenophanes Heraclitus of Ephesus | 69 |
The Atomists | 75 |
What are the special features? | 90 |
Bibliography | 99 |
Form not substance the fundamental concept | 122 |
The nature of our models | 125 |
Continuous description and causality | 130 |
The intricacy of the continuum | 133 |
The makeshift of wave mechanics | 143 |
The alleged breakdown of the barrier between subject and object | 151 |
Atoms or quanta the counterspell of old standing to escape the intricacy of the continuum | 157 |
Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance? | 162 |
Preface | 103 |
The spiritual bearing of science on life | 105 |
The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import | 113 |
A radical change in our ideas of matter | 115 |
The bar to prediction according to Niels Bohr | 168 |
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