Brain Bugs
An authoritative overview of how brain flaws shape our lives by a professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA. Much of the vocabulary is technological,…… Read More »
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
EVOLUTION-INVOLUTION
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Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
When looking at today's scientific paradigms, one has to wonder why science in the twentieth century developed the way it did, to become primarily reductionist…… Read More »
The Tyranny of Science
The Tyranny of Science arose from a series of lectures originally entitled 'What is knowledge? What is science?' that Paul Feyerabend gave to a general…… Read More »
THE MATHEMATICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE
Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning. Thus do many scientists opine these days – the likes…… Read More »
THE INTUITIVE WAY OF KNOWING – A Tribute to Brian Goodwin
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Science Philosophy of Science
As many readers will already know, Brian Goodwin was a visionary biologist, mathematician and philosopher who was professor of biology at the Open University, a…… Read More »
THE BASIC CODE OF THE UNIVERSE
We are often encouraged to think of the world in terms of vibration, and this seminal book explains how this is true in terms of…… Read More »
THE SCIENCE MYTH
Subtitled 'God, society, the self and what we will never know', this lucid and highly intelligent book is a sophisticated take on the culture war…… Read More »
Fifty Minerals That Changed the Course of History
The well-known phrase Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, useful in categorising almost everything, especially in quis games, might suggest evolution in reverse. However, in terms of the…… Read More »
Fifty Plants That Changed the Course of History
In Network 108 I reviewed Eric Chaline's pleasingly- illustrated book Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History, and suggested the obvious, " surely one…… Read More »