Encounters with Einstein - Softcover

Heisenberg, Werner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691024332 ISBN 13: 9780691024332

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1989

Synopsis

In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.

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From the Back Cover:

In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century - and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines.

Language Notes:

Text: English, German (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0691024332
• ISBN 13: 9780691024332
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152