Description
Book SynopsisA sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science’s claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Book IV. Quantum Mechanics: The End of the Dream
1. Atoms Exist!
2. Abandon the Dream?
3. Niels Bohr’s Lesson
4. Quantum Irony
5. The Physicists’ Double Standard
6. The Silent Descendant of the Queen of Heaven
Book V. In the Name of the Arrow of Time: Prigogine’s Challenge
7. The Arrow of Time
8. Boltzmann’s Successor
9. Boltzmann’s Heir
10. The Obligations of Chaos
11. The Laws of Chaos?
12. The Passion of the Law
Book VI. Life and Artifice: The Faces of Emergence
13. The Question of Emergence
14. The Practices of Emergence
15. Dissipative Coherence
16. Artifice and Life
17. The Art of Models
18. Transition to the Limit
Book VII. The Curse of Tolerance
19. The Curse of Tolerance
20. The Curse as Test
21. Anxiety and Fright
22. The Politics of Technical Inventions
23. The Cosmopolitical Question
24. Nomadic and Sedentary
25. The Betrayal of the Diplomats
26. The Diplomat’s Peace
27. Calculemus
28. The Final Challenge
Notes
Index
