Paradoxes of progress
By: Gunther S. Stent.
Series: A Series of books in biology
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Published: 1978
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Science -- Social aspects.; Science -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise and fall of Faustian man: The end of progress. The end of the arts and sciences. The road to Polynesia.; title: Molecular genetics in the salon: What they are saying about Honest Jim. Prematurity and uniqueness in scientific discovery. Molecular biology and metaphysics. The dilemma of science and morals.; title: Structuralism on the last frontier: Abstraction in the nervous system. Genes and the embryo. Limits to the scientific understanding of man. The decadence of scientism.