I N F O - E C O - B O O K L I S T - Doors of Perception 3 (1995)
The Third Culture:
Beyond the Scientific Revolution
author: Brockmans, John
publisher: Simon & Schuster Inc. 1995
language: English text
pages: 388 pp.
tip from: John Thackara
isbn: 0-684-80359-3
category: 2 - Ecology / Nature / Science
In the intellectual culture of today, science, not literature or philosophy, takes center stage in the debate over human nature and the nature of the universe. Now, it is scientists, not literary intellectuals, who have the most to say on the important questions facing mankind. `The Third Culture' includes Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins on the implications of evolution; Marvin Minsky, Daniel C. Dennett, Steven Pinker, and Roger Penrose on how the mind works; Murray Gell-Mann and Stuart Kauffman on the new sciences of complexity; and other leading scientists on genetics, computer science, neurophysiology, psychology, and physics. New York
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