Natural Sciences & Human Thought

ISBN-13: 9783540575184 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 228 str.

Robert Zwilling

Opis

This volume demonstrates the role and influence of the natural sciences in the development of human thought and perception. It presents a selection of results from various areas of current research.

Spis treści

Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the Unity of Physics: Scientific Progress by Unification.- The Emergence of Theoretical Physics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.- Physics and Human Thought.- Physics as a Cultural Science.- Time Flow.- Time’s Arrow.- Between Pure and Applied Mathematics.- Concepts of Causality in Pre-Socratic Philosophy.- The Rationality of Reductionism.- The Risk of Heuristics.- Irreversibility and Self-Organization.- Structural Basis of Serine Protease Action: The Fourth Dimension.- Can the Concept of Evolution Tell Us Who We Are?.- Changes of Paradigms in Biology and Medicine.- The Relationship Between Medicine and Natural Sciences During the Twentieth Century Aspects of the Theory of Science.- The Artificial Intelligence Approach to Modelling Medical Reasoning.- The Role of Prediction in Modern Science — The Example of Psychiatry.- From Brunelleschi to Leonardo.- Antonio Scarpa, Luigi Porta, Camillo Golgi: The Development of Medical Thought at Pavia University.- The Social Uses of Past Science: Celebrating Volta in Fascist Italy.

O autorze

Taking a selection of results from current research, this book aims to emphasize the influence of the natural sciences on human thought and on the way in which we perceive the world. Chapters by scientists from ten European countries combine to form a synopsis of European thought on an interdisziplinary basis.