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Simplicity and complexity in games of the intellect

Title
Simplicity and complexity in games of the intellect / Lawrence B. Slobodkin.
Author
Slobodkin, Lawrence B.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.

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Description
266 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Science > Philosophy
  • Science > Methodology
  • Simplicity (Philosophy)
  • Complexity (Philosophy)
  • Science > Methodology
  • Science > Philosophy
  • Einfachheit
  • Komplexität
  • Philosophie
  • Wissenschaft
  • Wissenschaftsphilosophie
  • Eenvoud
  • Complexiteit
  • Wetenschap
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Sense, sensibility and self -- the peculiar humanity of stories; simplifying religious revolutions -- the birth of doctrine; the great intellectual playing field -- in praise of games; three dinner parties; a matter of taste -- minimalism and the world of art; to science is human -- factual pleasures; explaining the whole universe -- motion, velocity and direction; explaining the rest of the universe -- Darwinian insight; virtue and the simple life; masters of reality.
ISBN
  • 0674808258
  • 9780674808256
LCCN
91023722
OCLC
  • ocm23976683
  • 23976683
  • SCSB-1943364
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library