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Useful knowledge : the American Philosophical Society millennium program
- Title
- Useful knowledge : the American Philosophical Society millennium program / Alexander G. Bearn, editor.
- Publication
- Philadelphia, PA : American Philosophical Society, 1999.
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- Description
- xxvi, 307 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 0065-9738 ; v. 234
- Uniform Title
- Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 234.
- Subject
- American Philosophical Society > Congresses
- American Philosophical Society
- American Philosophical Society
- American Philosophical Society > Congrès
- Learning and scholarship > Congresses
- Twenty-first century > Congresses
- Science > trends
- Research > trends
- Social Sciences > trends
- 02.02 philosophy and theory of science
- Learning and scholarship
- Twenty-first century
- Wissenschaft
- Zukunft
- Wetenschapsfilosofie
- Learning and scholarship
- Twenty-first century
- Savoir et érudition > Congrès
- Vingt et unième siècle > Congrès
- Civilisation > 20e siècle > Congrès
- Sciences > 20e siècle
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Congresses (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The laws of nature / Steven Weinberg ; Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, discussant -- Our concepts of the cosmos: progress, prospects and mysteries / Martin J. Rees ; Freeman J. Dyson, discussant -- Mathematics and computing / Peter D. Lax ; Charles L. Fefferman, discussant -- Global warming: does science matter? / Richard M. Goody ; James G. Anderson, discussant -- The molecular biology of Huntington's Disease / Max F. Perutz ; Jerome Karle, discussant -- Scientists and the public: an ambivalent partnership / Paul L. Berg ; Harold T. Shapiro, discussant -- Cancer: the revolution and the challenge / Bert Vogelstein ; Alfred G. Knudson, Jr., discussant -- Wiring the brain: dynamic interplay between nature and nurture / Carla J. Shatz ; John E. Dowling, discussant -- A neuroscience of memory for the 21st century / Christopher Pittenger and Eric R. Kandel ; Vernon B. Mountcastle, discussant -- National sovereignty and human rights / Louis Henkin ; Kent Greenawalt, discussant -- Economics becomes a science--or does it? / Alan S. Blinder ; Andrew F. Brimmer, discussant -- A millennium of economics in twenty minutes: in pursuit of useful knowledge / William J. Baumol ; Joseph E. Stiglitz, discussant -- Population in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Joel E. Cohen ; Samuel H. Preston, discussant -- Reconstructing the past / John Elliott ; Anthony Grafton, discussant -- Art and architectural history in the twentieth century / Henry A. Millon ; David Freedberg, discussant -- More than one millennium: the perennial return of the history of religions / Wendy Doniger ; Hermann Hunger, discussant -- Singularity in an age of globalization / Marc Fumaroli ; Glen W. Bowersock, discussant -- One hundred years of the renaissance / Hanna Holborn Gray ; William J. Bouwsma, discussant -- Race and admission to universities / Derek Bok ; David Gardner, discussant -- Health care in a democratic society / Nancy Kassebaum Baker ; Francisco J. Ayala, discussant -- Culture and democracy in America / Sheldon Hackney ; John H. D'Arms, discussant.
- ISBN
- 0871692341
- 9780871692344
- LCCN
- 99039406
- OCLC
- ocm42598292
- 42598292
- SCSB-1032943
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library