Physics and our view of the world / edited by Jan Hilgevoord.
Publication details: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.Description: ix, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0521476801 (pbk.)
- 0521453720 (hard)
- 9780521476805
- 530.01 20 PHY
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Contents
1. Introduction JAN HILGEVOORD
2. Questioning the answers GERARD T. HOOFT
3. Theories of everything JOHN BARROW
4. The scientific view of the world DENNIS DIEKS
5. Enlarging the world ERNAN McMULLIN
6. The world of empiricism BAS VAN FRAASSEN
7. Has the scientific view of the world a special status compared with other views? PAUL FEYERABEND
8. Quantum theory and our view of the world PAUL FEYERABEND
9. Interpretation of science - science as interpretation BAS VAN FRAASSEN
10. Problems in debates about physics and religion WILLEM DREES
11. The mind of God PAUL DAVIES
12. The sources of models for God: metaphysics or metaphor? MARY HESSE
13. Discussion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-298) and index (p. 299 - 304)
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