Paradoxes of progress /
Stent, Gunther S. 1924-2008.
Paradoxes of progress / Gunther S. Stent. - San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1978. - xii, 231 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - A Series of books in biology . - Series of books in biology. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The rise and fall of Faustian man: The end of progress. The end of the arts and sciences. The road to Polynesia.--Molecular genetics in the salon: What they are saying about Honest Jim. Prematurity and uniqueness in scientific discovery. Molecular biology and metaphysics. The dilemma of science and morals.--Structuralism on the last frontier: Abstraction in the nervous system. Genes and the embryo. Limits to the scientific understanding of man. The decadence of scientism.
0716700808. 0716700867 (pbk.)
78017829
Science--Social aspects.
Science--Philosophy.
Q175.5 / .S74
301.24/3
Paradoxes of progress / Gunther S. Stent. - San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1978. - xii, 231 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - A Series of books in biology . - Series of books in biology. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The rise and fall of Faustian man: The end of progress. The end of the arts and sciences. The road to Polynesia.--Molecular genetics in the salon: What they are saying about Honest Jim. Prematurity and uniqueness in scientific discovery. Molecular biology and metaphysics. The dilemma of science and morals.--Structuralism on the last frontier: Abstraction in the nervous system. Genes and the embryo. Limits to the scientific understanding of man. The decadence of scientism.
0716700808. 0716700867 (pbk.)
78017829
Science--Social aspects.
Science--Philosophy.
Q175.5 / .S74
301.24/3