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Science and the modern mind; a symposium, edited by Gerald Holton.
- Title
- Science and the modern mind; a symposium, edited by Gerald Holton.
- Author
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Publication
- Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1971, c1958]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 110 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Essay index reprint series.
- Subjects
- Note
- "These ... essays, and the ... [American Academy of Arts and Sciences] conference at which they were presented ... were assembled in honor of Dr. P. W. Bridgman and Dr. Philipp Frank on the occasion of their retirement from active teaching at Harvard University."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction, by G. Holton.--Three eighteenth-century social philosophers: scientific influences on their thought, by H. Guerlac.--Science and the human comedy: Voltaire, by H. Brown.--The seventeenth-century legacy: our mirror of being, by G. de Santillana.--Contemporary science and the contemporary world view, by P. Frank.--The growth of science and the structure of culture, by R. Oppenheimer.--The Freudian conception of man and the continuity of nature, by J. S. Bruner.--Quo vadis, by P. W. Bridgman.--Prospects for a new synthesis: science and the humanities as complementary activities, by C. Morris.--A humanist looks at science, by H. M. Jones.
- Call Number
- JSD 72-270
- ISBN
- 0836924460
- LCCN
- 70167304
- OCLC
- NYPG720161354-B
- Author
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Title
- Science and the modern mind; a symposium, edited by Gerald Holton.
- Imprint
- Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1971, c1958]
- Series
- Essay index reprint series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Bridgman, P. W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961.Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966.Holton, Gerald James.
- Research Call Number
- JSD 72-270