History of Science and Philosophy of Science: A Historical Perspective of the Evolution of Ideas in SciencePradip Kumar Sengupta Pearson Education India, 2010 - 705 Seiten |
Inhalt
Preface | xi |
Newtons Theory of Universal Gravitation and Constancy | xvi |
Pradip Kumar Sengupta | xxi |
Editors | xxxiii |
Problems and Prospects | xli |
History Evolution and Scientific Revolution | 3 |
Some Reflections | 17 |
Some Reflections | 23 |
The SalamWeinberg Model and Scenarios of Unification | 277 |
Poppers Propensity Interpretation and Heisenbergs Potentia | 301 |
Physics Myth and Philosophy | 313 |
Hidden Variables NonContextuality and EinsteinLocality | 339 |
Reflections on Naturalness the Anthropic | 389 |
Quantum Gravity and the Structure of Physical Reality | 409 |
Conservation of Biological Diversity | 447 |
Playing God or Being Human? | 473 |
Geometry in Ancient India | 41 |
Terrestrial and Celestial Aspects of Natural SciencesPtolemy | 83 |
The Scientist and Philosopher | 131 |
The Science and Philosophy of Albert Einstein | 161 |
Einstein and the Evolving Universe | 213 |
A Conceptual Study | 225 |
From Andrews to Bose and Einstein | 257 |
Machines and Consciousness | 559 |
Does Neurobiology of Mind Matter? | 585 |
Science Consciousness and Human Evolution | 657 |
Cognitive and Experiential Foundations of Consciousness | 685 |
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