- Bib ID:
- 685651
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
- xii, 212 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0198517750
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction. The scientist as rebel / Freeman Dyson
- 2. Must mathematical physics be reductionist? / Roger Penrose
- 3. Randomness in arithmetic and the decline and fall of reductionism in pure mathematics / Gregory J. Chaitin
- 4. Theories of Everything / John D. Barrow
- 5. Intertheoretic reduction: a neuroscientist's field guide / Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland
- 6. Neural Darwinism: the brain as a selectional system / Gerald M. Edelman and Giulio Tononi
- 7. A new vision of the mind / Oliver Sacks
- 8. The limitless power of science / P. W. Atkins
- 9. Reductive megalomania / Mary Midgley
- 10. Artificial intelligence and human dignity / Margaret A. Boden
- 11. On 'computabilism' and physicalism: some subproblems / Hao Wang
- 12. Knowledge representation and myth / W. F. Clocksin
- 13. Memory and the individual soul: against silly reductionism / Gerald M. Edelman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Cornwell, John, 1940-
- Copyright:
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