Why Beliefs Matter
Reflections on the Nature of Science
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 April 2014
- ISBN 9780198704997
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 234x156x13 mm
- Weight 450 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 b/w illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book discusses deep problems about our place in the world with a minimum of jargon. It argues that 'absolutist' ideas dating back to Plato continue to mislead generations of mathematicians, physicists, and theologians, and reveals the underlying reasons for the current conflicts between science and religion.
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In the follow-up to his acclaimed Science in the Looking Glass, Brian Davies discusses deep problems about our place in the world, using a minimum of technical jargon. The book argues that 'absolutist' ideas of the objectivity of science, dating back to Plato, continue to mislead generations of both theoretical physicists and theologians. It explains that the multi-layered nature of our present descriptions of the world is unavoidable, not because of anything about the world, but because of our own human natures. It tries to rescue mathematics from the singular and exceptional status that it has been assigned, as much by those who understand it as by those who do not. Working throughout from direct quotations from many of the important contributors to its subject, it concludes with a penetrating criticism of many of the recent contributions to the often acrimonious debates about science and religions.
Davies has thought long and hard about the relationship of mathematics to the physical world, which gives him an interesting and even helpful perspective.
Table of Contents:
Preface
The Scientific Revolution
The Human Condition
The Nature of Mathematics
Sense and Nonsense
Science and Religion
