TY - BOOK AU - Weinberg,Steven TI - Facing up: science and its cultural adversaries SN - 067400647X AV - Q171.W419 2001 U1 - 500 PY - 2001/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] PB - Harvard University Press KW - Science KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - gnd-content N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: 1. Science as a Liberal Art -- 2. Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of -- Congressional Testimony -- 3. Newton's Dream -- 4. Confronting O'Brien -- 5. The Heritage of Galileo -- 6. Nature Itself -- 7. The Boundaries of Scientific Knowledge -- 8. The Methods of Science-- and Those by Which We Live -- 9. Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist -- 10. Reductionism Redux -- 11. Physics and History -- 12. Sokal's Hoax -- 13. Science and Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange -- 14. Before the Big Bang -- 15. Zionism and Its Adversaries -- 16. The Red Camaro -- 17. The Non-Revolution of Thomas Kuhn -- 18. T. S. Kuhn's Non-Revolution: An Exchange -- 19. The Great Reduction: -- Physics in the Twentieth Century -- 20. A Designer Universe? -- 21. "A Designer Universe?": An Exchange -- 22. Five and a Half Utopias -- 23. Looking for Peace in the Science Wars -- Sources -- Index N2 - Machine generated contents note: 1. Science as a Liberal Art -- 2. Newtonianism, Reductionism, and the Art of -- Congressional Testimony -- 3. Newton's Dream -- 4. Confronting O'Brien -- 5. The Heritage of Galileo -- 6. Nature Itself -- 7. The Boundaries of Scientific Knowledge -- 8. The Methods of Science-- and Those by Which We Live -- 9. Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist -- 10. Reductionism Redux -- 11. Physics and History -- 12. Sokal's Hoax -- 13. Science and Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange -- 14. Before the Big Bang -- 15. Zionism and Its Adversaries -- 16. The Red Camaro -- 17. The Non-Revolution of Thomas Kuhn -- 18. T. S. Kuhn's Non-Revolution: An Exchange -- 19. The Great Reduction: -- Physics in the Twentieth Century -- 20. A Designer Universe? -- 21. "A Designer Universe?": An Exchange -- 22. Five and a Half Utopias -- 23. Looking for Peace in the Science Wars -- Sources -- Index UR - http://www.gbv.de/dms/goettingen/327248424.pdf UR - https://zbmath.org/?q=an:0984.00005 ER -