History of Science and Philosophy of Science: A Historical Perspective of the Evolution of Ideas in Science

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Pradip Kumar Sengupta
Pearson Education India, 2010 - 705 Seiten
 

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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
Index of Names
695
Index of Subjects
701
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