The science delusion
Subtitle: freeing the spirit of enquiry
By: by Rupert Sheldrake
Publisher: Coronet
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781444727920; 9781444727937; 9781444727951
Subjects: Dogmatism; Materialismus; Science; Philosophy; Dogmatismus; Naturwissenschaften; Methodology; Philosophie; Materialism
Description: The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction: The ten dogmas of modern science; title: Prologue: Science, religion, and power; title: 1. Is Nature mechanical?; title: 2. Is the total amount of matter and energy always the same?; title: 3. Are the laws of Nature fixed?; title: 4. Is matter unconscious?; title: 5. Is Nature purposeless?; title: 6. Is all biological inheritance material?; title: 7. Are memories stored as material traces?; title: 8. Are minds confined to brains?; title: 9. Are psychic phenomena illusory?; title: 10. Is mechanistic medicine the only kind that really works?; title: 11. Illusions of objectivity; title: 12. Scientific futures.