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Prof. Fred L. Wilson

Rochester Institute of Technology

Science and Human Values

Contents

Preface to Science and Human Values

Introduction

PART I. THE HIDDEN POTENTIAL OF NATURE

Unit I. The Nature of Science

Unit II. World Views

Chapter 5. Limitations of Science
Chapter 6. The Values of Science
Chapter 7. World Views of Nature

PART II. THE WORLD AS ORGANISM

Unit III. The Dead End of Pure Reason

Chapter 8. Mythology
Chapter 9. Pre-Socratic Philosophers
Chapter 10. Plato
Chapter 11. Aristotle
Chapter 12. The Failure of Logic

Unit IV. The Closed Circle of Revelation

Chapter 13. Augustine
Chapter 14. Trans-Mediterranean Prophets
Chapter 15. Scholastics
Chapter 16. Aquinas and Geocentrism

Unit V. The Impotence of Virtue

Chapter 17. China
Chapter 18. Islam

PART III. THE WORLD AS MECHANISM

Unit VI. Scientific Revolution

Chapter 19. Copernicus
Chapter 20. Bruno, Brahe, Kepler
Chapter 21. Galileo and the Rise of Mechanism
Chapter 22. Biology, Origin of Life, and Values

Unit VII. Newtonianism

Chapter 23. Newton
Chapter 24. Voltaire and the Philosophes
Chapter 25. The Anti-Scientists
Chapter 26. Self-Evident Truth - Franklin and Jefferson

Unit VIII. The Mechanistic Age

Chapter 27. Darwin, Evolution, and Creationism
Chapter 28. Mechanical Theory of Heat
Chapter 29. Mechanism and Electricity and Mechanism

PART IV. THE WORLD AS A PATTERN OF NUMBERS

Unit VIII. The Absolute and the Determined

Chapter 30. Quantum Mechanics
Chapter 31. Relativity
Chapter 32. Genetics

PART V. CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS

Unit IX. Tradeoffs in Contemporary Science and Technology

Chapter 33. Environment
Chapter 34. Population
Chapter 35. War
Chapter 36. Big Science
Chapter 37. Human Experiments
Chapter 38. Biotechnology

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