Puzzles, Problems, and Enigmas: Occasional Pieces on the Human Aspects of ScienceCambridge University Press, 30 okt 1981 - 373 pagina's Philosophical puzzles, political problems, ethical enigmas - science has them all. Do some theories stink? Is research a gentlemanly art or a tough professional game? What happens to scientists who go gaga? Can scientific knowledge be treated as a commercial commodity? How can research be made relevant to national development? Is war good for physics? What should scientists do about Soviet dissidents? How does information become knowledge? Why bother about examinations? These and many other topics on the human side of science are discussed in this wide-ranging book, originally published in 1981. As an experienced theoretical physicist, Professor Ziman speaks about science from the inside. As a long-time advocate of social responsibility in science, technology and education, he looks critically into science from the outside. He exposes for the layman, with wit and nerve, some of the most challenging issues of the time. |
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Puzzles Problems and Enigmas | 3 |
Einstein | 9 |
Themata | 11 |
The Quest of the Golden Helix | 15 |
There were Giants in those Days | 22 |
INTELLECTUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES | 25 |
Science is Social | 27 |
Undoctrinaire Inspections | 34 |
Some Pathologies of the Scientific Life | 108 |
Why be a Scientist? | 123 |
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY | 139 |
The Impact of Society on Science | 141 |
Seeing Through our Seers | 152 |
Is War good for Physics? | 159 |
Professional Scientists and their Impotence | 161 |
Can Scientific Knowledge be an Economic Category? | 167 |
Is Science to be Believed? | 38 |
Mathematical Models and Physical Toys | 47 |
Not so much a Model as a Theory | 65 |
Words and Symbols | 67 |
A Question of Upbringing | 70 |
Do Some Theories Stink? | 74 |
Whats in a Name? | 82 |
SCIENCE AS A PROFESSION | 85 |
Gentlemen or Players? | 87 |
A Very Strange Tribe | 93 |
Spotting Winners | 99 |
Some Very Queer Fish | 103 |
From Parameters to Portents and Back | 172 |
Bounded Science | 198 |
Letter to an Imaginary Soviet Scientist | 275 |
Solidarity within the Republic of Science | 283 |
Information Communication Knowledge | 303 |
Teaching Scientists to find Information | 315 |
New Lamps for Old | 321 |
The Other Culture | 341 |
Some Manifestations of Scientism | 352 |
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