The Scientific Enterprise - (Mathematics and Its Applications. East European Series) by Edna Ullmann-Margalit (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Eighteenth-Century Science and Radical Social Theory: The Case of Joseph Priestley's Scientific Liberalism.- Science, Politics, and the New Science of Politics: A Comment.- Critical Reactions to the Occult Sciences During the Renaissance.- Critical Reactions to the Occult: A Comment.- Works of the Imagination.- Works of the Imagination: A Comment.- Wittgenstein, Following a Rule, and Scientific Psychology.- How to Outsmart the Rules: A Comment.- Why Does Physics Need Mathematics?.- Why Does Physics Need Mathematics? A Comment.- Analysis and Its Paradoxes.- Explanation and Practical Reason.- Symposium: "The Other Newton" - The Theological and Alchemical Writings.- Gravity and Alchemy.- Isaac Newton: Theologian.- Newton and the Origins of Fundamentalism.- Symposium: Niels Bohr Centennial.- Man as Spectator and Actor in the Drama of Existence.- Bohr's Response to Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen.- The Genesis of Bohr's Complementarity Principle and the Bohr-Heisenberg Dialogue.