Science and the modern mind
Subtitle: a symposium
By: edited by Gerald Holton.
Contributors: Holton, Gerald James, ed.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Bridgman, Percy Williams, 1882-; Frank, Philipp, 1884-; Philosophy, Modern.; Science -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by G. Holton. - Three eighteenth-century social philosophers: scientific influences on their thought, by H. Guerlac. - Science and the human comedy: Voltaire, by H. Brown. - The seventeenth-century legacy: our mirror of being, by G. de Santillana. - Contemporary science and the contemporary world view, by P. Frank. - The growth of science and the structure of culture, by R. Oppenheimer. - The Freudian conception of man and the continuity of nature, by J. S. Bruner. - Quo vadis, by P. W. Bridgman. -Prospects for a new synthesis: science and the humanities as complementary activities, by C. Morris. - A humanist looks at science, by H. M. Jones.