Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- NATURE AND THE GREEKS
- SCIENCE AND HUMANISM
- Dedication
- Preface
- The spiritual bearing of science on life
- The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import
- A radical change in our ideas of matter
- Form, not substance, the fundamental concept
- The nature of our ‘models’
- Continuous description and causality
- The intricacy of the continuum
- The makeshift of wave mechanics
- The alleged break-down of the barrier between subject and object
- Atoms or quanta-the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum
- Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance?
- The barto prediction, according to Niels Bohr
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- NATURE AND THE GREEKS
- SCIENCE AND HUMANISM
- Dedication
- Preface
- The spiritual bearing of science on life
- The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import
- A radical change in our ideas of matter
- Form, not substance, the fundamental concept
- The nature of our ‘models’
- Continuous description and causality
- The intricacy of the continuum
- The makeshift of wave mechanics
- The alleged break-down of the barrier between subject and object
- Atoms or quanta-the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum
- Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance?
- The barto prediction, according to Niels Bohr
Summary
These are four public lectures which were delivered under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at University College Dublin in February, 1950 under the title ‘Science as a Constituent of Humanism’. Neither this nor the abbreviated title chosen here adequately covers the whole, but rather the first sections only. In the remaining part, from p. 11 onward, I intend to depict the present situation in physics as it has gradually developed in the current century $ to depict it from the point of view expressed in the title and in the earlier part, thus giving, as it were, an example of how I am looking on scientific effort: as forming part of man's endeavour to grasp the human situation.
My thanks are due to the Cambridge University Press for the rapid production of this booklet and to Miss Mary Houston from the Dublin Institute for designing the figures and reading the proofs.
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- 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' , pp. 103 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014