Ebook: Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art
Author: Arthur I. Miller (auth.)
- Genre: Other Social Sciences // Philosophy
- Tags: Mathematics general, Physics general
- Year: 1996
- Publisher: Copernicus
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Since the Enlightenment, science has been seen as an objective, true method of explanation about the physical and mathematical laws that explain and govern the universe. The 20th Century has shown that science is also a human enterprise, informed by idealogy and other assumptions. In this book, distinguished historian and philosopher of science Arthur Miller examines these and other important questions about what and how we know about the world. Dr. Miller also discusses, in non-technical language, our current ideas about the nature of scientific thought and explanation, its relation to truth, and the relationship between scientific and common sense. Does science, in its historical claim as an exalted endeavor, stand above other human activities?
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Common Sense and Scientific Intuition....Pages 1-36
The Intuition of Atoms....Pages 37-69
Scientific Methods....Pages 71-103
Faith in an Ordered Universe....Pages 105-128
Speaking Realistically About Science....Pages 129-176
The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics....Pages 177-215
Scientific Progress and Metaphors....Pages 217-262
Visual Imagery in Scientific Thought....Pages 263-324
Scientific Creativity....Pages 325-378
Art, Science, and the History of Ideas....Pages 379-439
Conclusion: The New Sciences....Pages 441-445
Back Matter....Pages 447-482
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Common Sense and Scientific Intuition....Pages 1-36
The Intuition of Atoms....Pages 37-69
Scientific Methods....Pages 71-103
Faith in an Ordered Universe....Pages 105-128
Speaking Realistically About Science....Pages 129-176
The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics....Pages 177-215
Scientific Progress and Metaphors....Pages 217-262
Visual Imagery in Scientific Thought....Pages 263-324
Scientific Creativity....Pages 325-378
Art, Science, and the History of Ideas....Pages 379-439
Conclusion: The New Sciences....Pages 441-445
Back Matter....Pages 447-482
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