The dignity of science
Subtitle: studies in the philosophy of science
By: presented to William Humbert Kane. Edited, with introd. by James A. Weisheipl in collaboration with the Thomist and the Albertus Magnus Lyceum. Pref. by Michael Browne.
Contributors: Kane, William Humbert, 1901-
Publisher: Thomist Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: [Washington]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
"Originally published as a special issue of the Thomist, volume XXIV, nos. 2, 3, & 4, April, July, October, 1961."
From the fact of evolution to the philosophy of evolutionism, by R.J. Nogar.--The rhythmic universe, by M.A. McDowell.--Mind, brain, and biochemistry, by A.S. Moraczewski.--Conscience and superego, by M. Stock.--Contemporary challenge to the traditional ideal of science, by A. McNicholl.--A social science founded on a unified natural science, by B.M. Ashley.--The role of science in liberal education, by M.O. Barrett.--American Catholics and science, by P.H. Yancey.--The writing of William Humbert Kane, O.P. (p. 524-526)
Table of contents: title: Demonstration and self-evidence, by E.D. Simmons.; title: The significance of the universal ut nune, by J.A. Oesterle.; title: William Harvey, M.D.: modern or ancient scientist? by H. Ratner.; title: Medicine and philosophy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries: the problem of elements, by R.P. McKeon.; title: The origins of the problem of the unity of form, by D.A. Callus.; title: The celestial movers in medieval physics, by J.A. Weisheipl.; title: Gravitational motion according to Theodoric of Freiberg, by W.A. Wallace.; title: "Mining all within," Clarke's notes to Rohault's Traité de physique, by M.A. Hoskin.; title: Darwin's dilemma, by C. DeKoninck.; title: [phi]úsló: the meaning of nature in the Aristotelian philosophy of nature, by S. O'F. Brennan.; title: Order in the philosophy of nature, by M. Glutz.; title: Motionless motions, by R.A. Kocourek.; title: Time, the measure of movement, by Sister M. Jocelyn.; title: Evolution and entropy, by V.E. Smith.