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What is life? : the intellectual pertinence of Erwin Schrödinger / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ... [et al.].
- Title
- What is life? : the intellectual pertinence of Erwin Schrödinger / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich
- Description
- ix, 145 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Four leading humanists and scientists reveal the ongoing contributions of Schrödinger's thought and unfold its controversial potential. They remind us that, in addition to being a great scientist, Schrödinger was also a great thinker whose intellectual provocations far exceed his historical impact.
- Uniform Title
- Geist und Materie. English.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- "Originally published in German under the title Geist und Materie."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : the sustainability of Erwin Schrödinger's thought / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Schrödinger on mind and matter / Robert Pogue Harrison -- Schrödinger's trouble : how quantum mechanics got created with a logical loose end / Robert B. Laughlin -- Exorcizing Schrödinger's ghost : reflections on "What is life?" and its surprising relevance to cancer biology / Michael R. Hendrickson -- Keeping the singular, risking openness : Erwin Schrödinger's way of world experience / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
- ISBN
- 9780804769150 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080476915X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804769167 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0804769168 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010029914
- OCLC
- 649079926
- SCSB-10795233
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library