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Science and literature : bridging the two cultures
- Title
- Science and literature : bridging the two cultures / David L. Wilson and Zack Bowen.
- Author
- Wilson, David L., 1943-
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2001.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 02-1129 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bowen, Zack R.
- Description
- xiii, 252 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Literature and science
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-246) and index.
- Contents
- Origins -- How to do science -- Can there be a science of humans? -- Darwinism, and knowledge and power: historical perspectives and politics in science and the humanities -- Darwin and The French lieutenant's woman -- Uncertainty: pt. 1. Uncertainty, bias, determinism, and free will ; pt. 2. Language and uncertainty -- Preparing for Pynchon: thermodynamics, Maxwell's demon, information, and meaning -- Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot49 -- Perception and reality: pt. 1. Human perception ; pt. 2. Reality and representation -- Revolutions in science -- Cycles and history/Yeats -- Ethics and morality in science and technology -- Brave new world -- Summary -- Appendix A: Science and literature- the course -- Appendix B: The science gap.
- Call Number
- JFE 02-1129
- ISBN
- 0813022835 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001048075
- OCLC
- 47739595
- Author
- Wilson, David L., 1943-
- Title
- Science and literature : bridging the two cultures / David L. Wilson and Zack Bowen.
- Imprint
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2001.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-246) and index.
- Added Author
- Bowen, Zack R.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 02-1129