The Borderlands of Science

Where Sense Meets Nonsense
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-515798-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

In The Borderlands of Science Michael Shermer takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science (superstring theory), and just plain nonsense (Big Foot) collide with one another. An excursion through the borderlands of science, history, and historical biography, enlivened by the many interesting stories and insights involving many of history's most famous scientists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shermer, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I: Borderlands Theories

- 1: The Knowledge Filter

- 2: Theories of Everything

- 3: Only God Can Do That?

- 4: Blood, Sweat, and Fears

- 5: Paradigms and Paradoxes

- Part II: Borderlands People

- 6: The Day the Earth Moved

- 7: Heretic-Personality

- 8: A Scientist Among the Spiritualists

- 9: Pedestals and Statues

- 10: The Exquisite Balance

- Part III: Borderlands History

- 11: The Beautiful People Myth

- 12: The Amadeus Myth

- 13: A Gentlemanly Arrangement

- 14: The Great Bone Hoax

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com) and the Director of The Skeptics Society. He is a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology, and hosts the Skeptics Lecture Series at Cal Tech. He has authored several popular books on science, scientific history, and the philosophy and history of science, including Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, and Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? (with Alex Grobman). He lives in Los Angeles, California.