[PDF] Science And The Truthfulness Of Beauty eBook

Author : Robert Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317059018

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When scientists describe their results or insights as 'beautiful', are they using the term differently from when they use it of a landscape, music or another person? Science and the Truthfulness of Beauty re-examines the way in which seeing beauty in the world plays the key role in scientific advances, and argues that the reliance on such a personal point of view is ultimately justified by belief that we are made in the 'image of God', as Christian and Jewish believers assert. It brings a fresh voice to the ongoing debate about faith and science, and suggests that scientists have as much explaining to do as believers when it comes to the ways they reach their conclusions.

Author : James W. McAllister
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780801486258

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The first systematic study of the aesthetic evaluations that scientists pass on their theories.

Author : Ernst Peter Fischer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2013-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1489961445

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Showing how the aesthetic delights of thought, analysis, research, and discovery are leading components of the scientific mind and process, he examines everything from snowflakes to the overall makeup of the space-time continuum. He explores these concepts and others including the golden mean, evolution, symmetry in nature, as well as imaginary numbers and irrationality as proof of beauty in science. He presents truth as a state of beauty - and beauty as the embodiment of truth. This book will appeal to lay people and scientists alike.

Author : Rupert Sheldrake
Publisher : Deepak Chopra
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0770436722

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The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible. In Science Set Free (originally published to acclaim in the UK as The Science Delusion), Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows the ways in which science is being constricted by assumptions that have, over the years, hardened into dogmas. Such dogmas are not only limiting, but dangerous for the future of humanity. According to these principles, all of reality is material or physical; the world is a machine, made up of inanimate matter; nature is purposeless; consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain; free will is an illusion; God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls. But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns while societies around the world are paying the price. In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities for discovery. Science Set Free will radically change your view of what is real and what is possible.

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher :
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0465082378

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Physics.

Author : Nancy Etcoff
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307779114

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A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior. In Survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism—it’s in our biology. Beauty, she explains, is an essential and ineradicable part of human nature that is revered and ferociously pursued in nearly every civilization—and for good reason. Those features to which we are most attracted are often signals of fertility and fecundity. When seen in the context of a Darwinian struggle for survival, our sometimes extreme attempts to attain beauty—both to become beautiful ourselves and to acquire an attractive partner—suddenly become much more understandable. Moreover, if we understand how the desire for beauty is innate, then we can begin to work in our own interests, and not just the interests of our genetic tendencies.

Author : Bruce Charlton
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1789551439

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Real science is dead.

Author : Harriet Brown
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0738217697

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A science journalist's provocative exploration of how biology, psychology, media, and culture come together to shape our ongoing obsession with our bodies, while also tackling the myths and realities of the "obesity epidemic."