ISBN:
9783540776260
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 160 p, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Coyne, George V., 1933 - 2020 A comprehensible universe
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Science History
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Science Philosophy
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Philosophy
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Science Science_xHistory
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Philosophy
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Philosophy (General)
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Science Philosophy
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Rationalism
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Religion and science
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Science Methodology
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Rationalität
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Naturwissenschaften
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Theologie
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Wissenschaftsphilosophie
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Naturwissenschaften
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Methode
Abstract:
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Abstract:
Why is our world comprehensible? This question seems so trivial that few people have dared to ask it. In this book we explore the deep roots of the mystery of rationality. The inquiry into the rationality of the world began over two-and-a-half-thousand years ago, when a few courageous people tried to understand the world with the help of reason alone, rejecting the comforting fabric of myth and legend. After many philosophical and theological adventures the Greek concept of rationality laid the foundations of a revolutionary way of thinking: the scientific method, which transformed the world
Description / Table of Contents:
Discovery that the World is Rational; Should the Astronomer Look into the Sky?; Seven Fighters against Thebes; How to Count the Grains of Sand; Is the World Rational?; Christianity on the Scene; Theology and Science in the Epoch of the Church Fathers; The Medieval Contribution; Achilles and the Arrow; The Dynamics of Aristotle; Three Generations: From Tartaglia to Galileo; Birth of the Method; Is the World Mathematical?; Mathematics at Work; Afterthoughts
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151) and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-77626-0
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