Images of the world
Subtitle: science, humanities, art
By: edited by Aleksander Koj and Piotr Sztompka.
Contributors: Koj, A.; Sztompka, Piotr.; Uniwersytet Jagielloński.
Publisher: Jagiellonian University
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Kraków
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy. -- Congresses.; Science and the humanities -- Congresses.; Cosmology -- Congresses.; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge -- Congresses.; Civilization -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references.
Papers presented at a conference held at Jagiellonian University Sept. 29-30, 2000 on the occasion of the University's 600th anniversary.
Table of contents: title: Evolution and information -- John Maynard Smith; title: Bioethics -- Juan de Dios Vial Correa; title: Moral challenges of genetic research -- Charles A. Dinarello; title: Medicine: science or art? -- Ryszard J. Gryglewski; title: Expanding horizons: progress and prospects in astronomy and cosmology -- Martin Rees; title: In search of the second Earth -- Alexander Wolszczan; title: Mathematics, the language of physics? -- Michael Heller; title: Mathematical images -- Jean-Pierre Bourguignon; title: A new Europe without the humanities -- Erhard Busek; title: Why Eurasia, why Europe, why Poland? -- Jared M. Diamond; title: History as a universal science and a creative art of communication -- Norman Davies; title: Social theory and global history -- Björn Wittrock; title: Is there, or can there be, a "European society?" -- Claus Offe; title: Culture and social structure in the 21st century -- Neil J. Smelser; title: Brave new world in the global village -- Krzysztof Zanussi; title: The ambivalence of social change -- Piotr Sztompka.