The trouble with science /
In The Trouble with Science, Robin Dunbar asks whether science really is unique to Western culture, even to humankind. He suggests that our "trouble with science" - our inability to grasp how it works, our suspiciousness of its successes - may lie in the fact that evolution has left our mi...
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1995.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Dunbar, R. I. M. |q (Robin Ian MacDonald), |d 1947- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The trouble with science / |c Robin Dunbar. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge, Mass. : |b Harvard University Press, |c 1995. | ||
| 300 | |a 213 p. : |b ill. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-200) and index. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally published: London : Faber & Faber, 1995. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a What is this thing called science? -- A natural history of science -- The roots of science -- Why is science so successful? -- Unnatural science -- The social brain -- Science through the looking-glass -- The open society revisited -- Divided loyalties. | |
| 520 | |a In The Trouble with Science, Robin Dunbar asks whether science really is unique to Western culture, even to humankind. He suggests that our "trouble with science" - our inability to grasp how it works, our suspiciousness of its successes - may lie in the fact that evolution has left our minds better able to cope with day-to-day social interaction than with the complexities of the external world. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Science |x Philosophy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Science |x Social aspects. | |
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