Reflections of a Physicist (2nd Edition, Enlarged: 10 Essays added to First Edition)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Philosophical Library, New York, 1955

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576 pp., xiv. NAP. Following the original Preface and Preface to the Second Edition ("September, 1955"), Contents divided into 32 Essays in Five Parts: I. GENERAL POINTS OF VIEW (1) "Operational analysis"; (2) "Some General Principles of Operational Analysis"; (3) "Science: Public or Private?"; (4) "Freedom and the Individual"; (5) "On ' Scientific Method ' "; (6) "Some Implications of Recent Points of View in Physics"; (7) "The Operational Aspect of Meaning"; (8) "Science and Common Sense"; (9) "Remarks on the Present State of Operationalism"; II. APPLICATIONS TO SCIENTIFIC SITUATIONS (10) "The New Vision of Science"; (11) "Permanent Elements in the Flux of Present-Day Physics"; (12) "The Recent Change in the Attitude Toward the Law of Cause and Effect"; (13) "Statistical Mechanics and the Second Law of Thermodynamics"; (14) "The Time Scale"; (15) "On the Nature and Limitations of Cosmical Inquiries"; (16) "Einstein's Theories and the Operational Point of View"; (17) "Impertinent Reflections on History of Science"; III. PRIMARILY SOCIAL (18) "The Struggle for Intellectual Integrity"; (19) "Society and the Intelligent Physicist"; (20) "Science, and Its Changing Social Environment"; (21) "Scientists and Social Responsibility"; (22) "Science and Freedom--Reflections of a Physicist"; (23) "The Strategy of the Social Sciences"; (24) "Science, Materialism and the Human Spirit"; (25) "The Discovery of Science"; (26) "The Task Before Us"; IV. SPECIFIC SITUATIONS (27) " 'Manifesto ' by a Physicist"; (28) "A Challenge to Physicists"; (29) "Scientific Freedom and National Planning"; (30) "Sentimental Democracy and the Forgotten Physicist"; V. PROPHETIC (31) "The Prospect for Intelligence"; (32) "New Vistas for Intelligence"; Note, p. 569; Acknowledgment, pp. 571-573; Index, pp. 575-576. FROM ESSAY 26: "As I listened [to Prof. F.S.C. Northrup's talk] I could not help wondering whether the philosophy of the founding fathers, if they were living today, [their "philosophy based on scientific views of nature stemming from Galileo and Newton"] would not be altered by the revolutions in scientific thinking of this century. [Vide Alfred N. Whitehead in Science and the Modern World, Ch. 6]. In particular, how would Thomas Jefferson have reacted to the apparently irreconcilable schism between mathematicians as to the foundations of mathematics. . . What sort of democracy would have been created by founding fathers who had taken to heart the lessons of relativity and quantum theory? . . If it would have been different, why should we not now be discussing how it would have been different?" Medium blue dustwrapper not price-clipped ($6.00) with Title lettering in large white letters from upper to lower middle front cover (with two small illustrations); Author name lettering in smaller white letters across lower middle front cover. Thin triangular piece missing at dustwrapper top right spine/front cover top left corner, with diagonal tear angled for 1 1/2" at bottom (now backed with Archival tape), with near-invisible faint discoloration of red cloth beneath at that location; light rubbing wear at corners and chip at top right spine corner; spine sunned (All lettering still sharp and distinct, eminently readable), with 1" faint band of sunning across top front cover, additionally; small area of dampstain at foot of spine (NO warping): NOW in Brodart mylar, forgiving all transgressions graciously. Book itself: red cloth with strong black lettering on spine and Publisher's logo on upper middle front cover; very small curls at corners; two small virtually invisible dampstain spots on lower edge and foot of spine and lower right front cover corner essentially only discoverable by espying faint red color on inside of dustwrapper (NOT bleeding through to outside): Strong binding (NO cracks); NO rubbing wear (dw did its job); NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. The way to read a CLASSIC work by a distinguished Physicist.…

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Titel
Reflections of a Physicist (2nd Edition, Enlarged: 10 Essays added to First Edition)
Autor
P.W. Bridgman
Verlag
Philosophical Library, New York
Erscheinungsjahr
1955
Zustand
Near Fine
Schutzumschlag
Very Good
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
Auflage
2nd Edition
Abmessungen
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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