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'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'
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Erwin Schrödinger
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Roger Penrose
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July 05 2014
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August 13 1996
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Book chapters
pp. vii
Foreword
pp. 3
The motives for returning to ancient thought
pp. 22
The competition, reason v. senses
pp. 34
The Pythagoreans
pp. 53
The Ionian Enlightenment
pp. 69
The religion of Xenophanes. Heraclitus of Ephesus
pp. 75
The Atomists
pp. 90
What are the special features?
pp. 99
References
pp. 103
Preface
pp. 105
The spiritual bearing of science on life
pp. 113
The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import
pp. 115
A radical change in our ideas of matter
pp. 122
Form, not substance, the fundamental concept
pp. 125
The nature of our “models”
pp. 130
Continuous description and causality
pp. 133
The intricacy of the continuum
pp. 143
The makeshift of wave mechanics
pp. 151
The alleged break-down of the barrier between subject and object
pp. 157
Atoms or quanta–the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum
pp. 162
Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance?
pp. 168
The bar to prediction, according to Niels Bohr
pp. 172
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