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Book Synopsis Science and Myth by : Wolfgang Smith
Download or read book Science and Myth written by Wolfgang Smith and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Science and Myth the author shows, in the first place, that science too has its mythology, unrecognized and unacknowledged though the fact be. These scientistic myths, however, turn out to constitute what he terms anti-myths: "a kind that would banish all others, and in so doing, undermine not only religion and morality, but indeed all culture in its higher modes." What invalidates the contemporary "scientific" world-view and renders it "mythical" in the pejorative sense, he goes on to contend, proves finally to be the underlying hypothesis that human perception terminates, not in an external object, but in a subjective phantasm. Not only does the author maintain cogently that visual perception, in particular, does penetrate to the external world, but basing himself on traditional sources-fromVedic to Biblical-he shows that sight as such opens in principle to a veritable gnosis: a "seeing of the Real."
Book Synopsis Science and Myth by : Wolfgang Smith
Download or read book Science and Myth written by Wolfgang Smith and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Science without Myth by : Sergio Sismondo
Download or read book Science without Myth written by Sergio Sismondo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This philosophical introduction to and discussion of social and political studies of science argues that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.
Book Synopsis Science as Salvation by : Mary Midgley
Download or read book Science as Salvation written by Mary Midgley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science.
Book Synopsis Emotional Intelligence 101 by : Gerald Matthews, PhD
Download or read book Emotional Intelligence 101 written by Gerald Matthews, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Features --
Book Synopsis Icons of Evolution by : Jonathan Wells
Download or read book Icons of Evolution written by Jonathan Wells and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you were taught about evolution is wrong.
Book Synopsis Science and the Myth of Progress by : Mehrdad M. Zarandi
Download or read book Science and the Myth of Progress written by Mehrdad M. Zarandi and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the fall / Frithjof Schuon -- Sacred and profane science / René Guénon -- Traditional cosmology and the modern world / Titus Burckhardt -- Religion and science / Lord Northbourne -- Contemporary man, between the rim and the axis / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Christianity and the religious thought of C.G. Jung / Philip Sherrard - - On earth as it is in heaven / James S. Cutsinger -- The nature and extent of criticism of evolutionary theory / Osman Bakar -- Knowledge and knowledge / D.M. Matheson -- Knowledge and its counterfeits / Gai Eaton -- Ignorance / Wendell Berry -- The plague of scientistic belief / Wolfgang Smith -- Scientism: the bedrock of the modern worldview / Huston Smith -- Life as non-historical reality / Giuseppe Sermonti -- Man, creation and the fossil record / Michael Robert Negus -- The act of creation: bridging transcendence and immanence / William A. Dembski.
Book Synopsis What is Science? by : Jordanka Zlatanova
Download or read book What is Science? written by Jordanka Zlatanova and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a multitude of ways, science affects the life of almost every person on earth. From medicine and nutrition to communication and transportation, the products of scientific research have changed human life. These changes have mostly taken place in the last two centuries, so rapidly that the average person is unable to keep informed. A consequence of this "information gap" has been the increasing suspicion of science and scientists. The lack of true understanding of science, especially of "fundamental" research, motivates this effort to narrow this gap by explaining scientific endeavor and the data-driven worldviews of scientists. Key Features Fills an existing void in the understanding of science among the general population Is written in a nontechnical language to facilitate understanding Covers a wide range of science-related subjects: The value of "basic research" How scientists work by sharing results and ideas How science is funded by governments and private entities Addresses the possible dangers of research and how society deals with such risks Expresses the viewpoint of an author with extensive experience working in laboratories all over the world
Book Synopsis Science Between Myth and History by : José G. Perillán
Download or read book Science Between Myth and History written by José G. Perillán and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Between Myth and History explores scientific storytelling and its implications on the teaching, practice, and public perception of science. In communicating their science, scientists tend to use historical narratives for important rhetorical purposes. This text explores the implications of doing this.
Book Synopsis Women, Science, and Myth by : Sue V. Rosser
Download or read book Women, Science, and Myth written by Sue V. Rosser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia surveys the scientific research on gender throughout the ages—the people, experiments, and impact—of both legitimate and illegitimate findings on the scientific community, women scientists, and society at large. Women, Science, and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present examines the ways scientists have researched gender throughout history, the ways those results have affected society, and the impact they have had on the scientific community and on women, women scientists, and women's rights movements. In chronologically organized entries, Women, Science, and Myth explores the people and experiments that exemplify the problematic relationship between science and gender throughout the centuries, with particular emphasis on the 20th century. The encyclopedia offers a section on focused cross-period themes such as myths of gender in different scientific disciplines and the influence of cultural norms on specific eras of gender research. It is a timely and revealing resource that celebrates science's legitimate accomplishments in understanding gender while unmasking the sources of a number of debilitating biases concerning women's intelligence and physical attributes.
Book Synopsis The Myth of Scientific Literacy by : Morris Herbert Shamos
Download or read book The Myth of Scientific Literacy written by Morris Herbert Shamos and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamos argues that a meaningful scientific literacy cannot be achieved in the first place, and the attempt is a misuse of human resources on a grand scale. He is skeptical about forecasts of "critical shortfalls in scientific manpower" and about the motives behind crash programs to get more young people into the science pipeline.
Book Synopsis Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science by : Ronald L. Numbers
Download or read book Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science written by Ronald L. Numbers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A falling apple inspired the law of gravity—or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But why do such stories endure as explanations of how science happens? Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away popular misconceptions to provide a clearer picture of scientific breakthroughs from ancient times to the present.
Download or read book A Final Story written by Nasser Zakariya and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular science readers embrace epics—the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wilson or Steven Weinberg deliberately seek to move beyond particular disciplines, to create a compelling story weaving together natural historical events, scientific endeavor, human discovery, and contemporary existential concerns. In A Final Story, Nasser Zakariya delves into the origins and ambitions of these scientific epics, from the nineteenth century to the present, to see what they reveal about the relationship between storytelling, integrated scientific knowledge, and historical method. While seeking to transcend the perspectives of their own eras, the authors of the epics and the debates surrounding them are embedded in political and social struggles of their own times, struggles to which the epics in turn respond. In attempts to narrate an approach to a final, true account, these synthesizing efforts shape and orient scientific developments old and new. By looking closely at the composition of science epics and the related genres developed along with them, we are able to view the historical narrative of science as a form of knowledge itself, one that discloses much about the development of our understanding of and relationship to science over time.
Book Synopsis The Wonderful Myth Called Science by : Frederick Bauer
Download or read book The Wonderful Myth Called Science written by Frederick Bauer and published by Solas Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Einstein, Descartes, Locke, Bohr, Rorty, Berkeley, Hume, Kant -magical names When we step on an airplane, turn the key in the ignition, or switch on an air conditioner we - not just academicians - all agree that the ideas of these far-sighted sages of the Enlightenment and Modernism saved us from the Medieval life. But, as the author shows, if we fully accept their ideas a drastic change in our world-view ensues. Fred Bauer has been examining the great minds for many years, and in easily understood terms gives us a surely amazing Grand Unifying Theory. Of course, he gives ample reasons why we each have to choose for ourselves - rejecting or accepting concepts. In any case, The Wonderful Myth Called Science poses an exciting and at times an emotionally challenging exploration of science and living.
Book Synopsis Science, Myth Or Magic? by : Samuel Anthony Barnett
Download or read book Science, Myth Or Magic? written by Samuel Anthony Barnett and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a wealth of examples and anecdotes to describe what science is and what it can and cannot do, along the way debunking many of the popular myths and misconceptions about science.
Download or read book Myth and Science written by Tito Vignoli and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northern Lights written by George Bryson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electric green pierced by neon blue, shocking pink spinning into violent red, and shimmering purple sidled up against deep indigo: never before have you seen such high-octane colors in the sky, and never before has a book shown the northern lights-aurora borealis-in such vivid color. In Northern Lights, photographers Calvin Hall and Daryl Pederson bring to print nearly a hundred photographs of this amazing natural phenomenon, shot from remote locations all over Alaska and using no filters or digital enhancement. Just as fascinating are the legends, myths, and science surrounding this polar phenomenon, described by George Bryson. As 2002 marks the peak viewing time of the northern lights in an eleven-year cycle, this book brings the elusive magic of the northern lights to stargazers near and far.
