Science as salvation : a modern myth and its meaning / Mary Midgley
by Midgley, Mary
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London : Routledge, 1994. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; x, 239 p. ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) and index. DARWIN AD 2192. Contents; 1. Salvation and the academics -- 2. Prophecies, Marxist and anthropic -- 3. Minimalism does not work -- 4. The fascination of chance -- 5. The function of faith -- 6. Enlightenment and information -- 7. Putting nature in her place -- 8. The remarkable masculine birth of time -- 9. Unexpected difficulties of deicide -- 10. The uninhabitable vacuum -- 11. Parsimony, integrity and puritanism -- 12. Questions of motivation -- 13. The hunger for synthesis -- 14. Evolution and the apotheosis of man -- 15. Dyson, animism and the nature of matter -- 16. Space, freedom and romance -- 17. The anthropic synthesis -- 18. Quantum quandaries -- 19. Conserving the spirit. Subjects; Science Philosophy. Religion and science.
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- Title
- Science as salvation : a modern myth and its meaning / Mary Midgley
- Author
- Midgley, Mary
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- Softcover
- Book Condition
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- First Paperback Edition
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0415107733
- ISBN 13
- 9780415107730
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- London : Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
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