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Pluto's Republic

By Peter Brian Medawar

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1982
ISBN
0192177265, 9780192177261
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5020221 bytes)
Pages
351\367
Time added
2022-11-08 01:57:58

Description

Peter Medawar, 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance". Essays exploring the nature of science include discussions of topics, such as psychoanalysis, evolution, genetics, and the role of imagination in scientific discoveries. Pluto's Republic, incorporating “The Art of the Soluble” and “Induction and intuition in scientific thought” Introduction: Pluto's Republic Two conceptions of science Science and literature Further comments on psychoanalysis Induction and intuition in scientific thought I The problem stated II Mainly about induction III Mainly about intuition Hypothesis and imagination Victims of psychiatry Darwin's illness Type A behavior and your heart The crab Unnatural science Technology and evolution Does ethology throw any light on human behaviour? Taking the measure of man Herbert Spencer and the law of general evolution D'Arcy Thompson and Growth and Form The Phenomenon of Man The Act of Creation J.B.S. Lucky Jim House in order A biological retrospect Expectation and prediction Science and the sanctity of life On 'the effecting of all things possible' Index

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