This idea must die : scientific theories that are blocking progress /
Science advances by discovering new things and developing new ideas. Few truly new ideas are developed without abandoning old ones first. As theoretical physicist Max Planck (1858-1947) noted, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, bu...
| Други автори: | Brockman, John, 1941- (Editor) |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York ; Toronto, Ontario :
Harper Perennial,
[2015]
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Съдържание:
- The theory of everything / Geoffrey West
- Unification / Marcelo Gleiser
- Simplicity / A.C. Grayling
- The universe / Seth Lloyd
- IQ / Scott Atran
- Brain plasticity / Leo M. Chalupa
- Changing the brain / Howard Gardner
- "The rocket scientist" / Victoria Wyatt
- Indivi-duality / Nigel Goldenfeld
- The bigger an animal's brain, the greater its intelligence / Nicholas Humphrey
- The big bang was the first moment of time / Lee Smolin
- The universe began in a state of extraordinarily low entropy / Alan Guth
- Entropy / Bruce Parker
- The uniformity and uniqueness of the universe / Andrei Linde
- Infinity / Max Tegmark
- The laws of physics are predetermined / Lawrence M. Krauss
- Theories of anything / Paul Steinhardt
- M-theory/string theory is the only game in town / Eric R. Weinstein
- String theory / Frank Tipler
- Our world has only three space dimensions / Gordon Kane
- The "naturalness" argument / Peter Woit
- The collapse of the wave function / Freeman Dyson
- Quantum jumps / David Deutsch
- Cause and effect / W. Daniel Hillis
- Race / Nina Jablonski
- Essentialism / Richard Dawkins
- Human nature/ Peter Richerson
- The Urvogel / Julia Clarke
- Numbering nature / Kurt Gray
- Hardwired=permanent / Michael Shermer
- The atheism prerequisite / Douglas Rushkoff
- Evolution is "true" / Roger Highfield
- There is no reality in the quantum world / Anton Zeilinger
- Spacetime / Steve Giddings
- The universe / Amanda Gefter
- The Higgs particle closes a chapter in particle physics / Haim Harari
- Aesthetic motivation / Sarah Demers
- Naturalness, hierarchy, and spacetime / Maria Spiropulu
- Scientists ought to know everthing scientifically knowable / Ed Regis
- Falsifiability / Sean Carroll
- Anti-anecdotalism / Nicholas G. Carr
- Science makes philosophy obsolete / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- "Science" / Ian Bogost
- Our narrow definition of "science" / Sam Harris
- The hard problem / Daniel C. Dennett
- The neural correlates of consciousness / Susan Blackmore
- Long-term memory is immutable / Todd C. Sacktor
- The self / Bruce Hood
- Cognitive agency / Thomas Metzinger
- Free will / Jerry Coyne
- Common sense / Robert Provine
- There can be no science of art / Jonathan Gottschall
- Science and technology / George Dyson
- Things are either true or false / Alan Alda
- Simple answers / Gavin Schmidt
- We'll never hit barriers to scientific understanding / Martin Rees
- Life evolves via a shared genetic toolkit / Seirian Sumner
- Fully random mutations / Kevin Kelly
- One genome per individual / Eric J. Topol
- Nature versus nurture / Timo Hannay
- The particularist use of "a" gene-environment interaction / Robert Sapolsky
- Natrual selection is the only engine of evolution / Athena Vouloumanos
- Behavior = genes + environment / Steven Pinker
- Innateness / Alison Gopnik
- Moral blank-slateism / Kiley Hamlin
- Associationism / Oliver Scott Curry
- Radical behaviorism / Simon Baron-Cohen
- "Instinct" and "innate" / Daniel L. Everett
- Altruism / Tor Nørretranders
- The altruism hierarchy / Jamil Zaki
- Humans are by nature social animals / Adam Waytz
- Evidence-based medicine / Gary Klein
- Large randomized controlled trials / Dean Ornish
- Multiple regression as a means of discovering causality / Richard Nisbett
- Mouse models / Azra Raza
- The somatic mutation theory of cancer / Paul Davies
- The linear no-threshold (LNT) radiation dose hypotheses / Stewart Brand
- Universal grammar / Benjamin K. Bergen
- A science of language should deal only with "competence" / N.J. Enfield
- Languages condition worldviews / John McWhorter
- The standard approach to meaning / Dan Sperber
- The uncertainty principle / Kai Krause
- Beware of arrogance! Retire nothing! / Ian McEwan
- Big data / Gary Marcus
- The stratigraphic column / Christine Finn
- The habitable-zone concept / Dimitar D. Sasselov
- Robot companions / Sherry Turkle
- "Artificial intelliggence" / Roger Schank
- The mind is just the brain / Tania Lombrozo
- Mind versus matter / Frank Wilczek
- Intelligence as a property / Alexander Wissner-Gross
- The grand analogy / David Gelernter
- Grandmother cells / Terrence J. Sejnowski
- Brain modules / Patricia S. Churchland
- Bias is always bad / Tom Griffiths
- Cartesian hydraulicism / Robert Kurzban
- The computational metaphor / Rodney A. Brooks
- Left-brain/right-brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
- Left-brain/right-brain / Stephen M. Kosslyn
- Moore's Law / Andrian Kreye
- The continuity of time / Ernst Pöppel
- The input-output model of perception and action / Andy Clark
- Knowing is half the battle / Laurie R. Santos and Tamar Gendler
- Informaiton overload / Jay Rosen
- The rational individual / Alex (Sandy) Pentland
- Homo economicus / Margaret Levi
- Don't discard wrong theories, just don't treat them as true / Richard H. Thaler
- Rational actor models : the competence corollary / Susan Fiske
- Malthusianism / Matt Ridley
- Economic growth / Cesar Hidalgo
- Unlimited and eternal growth / Hans Ulrich Obrist
- The tragedy of the commons / Luca De Biase
- Markets are bad, markets are good / Michael I. Norton
- Stationarity / Giulio Boccaletti
- Stationarity / Laurence C. Smith
- The carbon footprint / Daniel Goleman
- Unbridled scientific and technological optimism / Stuart Pimm
- Scientists should stick to science / Buddhini Samarasinghe
- Nature = objects / Scott Sampson
- Scientific morality / Edward Slingerland
- Science is self-correcting / Alex Holcombe
- Replication as a safety net / Adam Alter
- Scientific knowledge structured as "literature" / Brian Christian
- The way we produce and advance science / Cathryn Clancy
- Allocating funds via peer review / Aubrey De Grey
- Some questions are too hard for young scientists to tackle / Ross Anderson
- Only scientists can do science / Kate Mills
- The scientific method / Melanie Swan
- Big effects have big explanations / Fiery Cushman
- Science = big science / Samuel Arbesman
- Sadness is always bad, happiness is always good / June Gruber
- Opposites can't both be right / Eldar Shafir
- People are sheep / David Berreby
- Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder / David M. Buss
- Romantic love and addiction / Helen Fisher
- Emotion is peripheral / Brian Knutson
- Science can maximize our happiness / Paul Bloom
- Culture / Pascal Boyer
- Culture / Laura Betzig
- Learning and culture / John Tooby
- "Our" intutitions / Stephen Stich
- We're stone age thinkers / Alun Anderson
- Inclusive fitness / Martin Nowak
- Human evolutionary exceptionalism / Michael McCullough
- Animal mindlessness / Kate Jeffery
- Humaniqueness / Irene Pepperberg
- Human being = homo sapiens / Steve Fuller
- Anthropocentricity / Satyajit Das
- Truer perceptions are fitter perceptions / Donald D. Hoffman
- The intrinsic beauty and elegance of mathematics allows it to describe nature / Gregory Benford
- Geometry / Carlo Rovelli
- Calculus / Andrew Lih
- Computer science / Neil Gershenfeld
- Science advances by funerals / Samuel Barondes
- Planck's cynical view of scientific change / Hugo Mercier
- New ideas triumph by replacing old ones / Jared Diamond
- Max Planck's faith / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The illusion of certainty / Mary Catherine Bateson
- The pursuit of parsimony / Jonathan Haidt
- The clinician's law of parsimony / Gerald Smallberg
- Essentialist views of the mind / Lisa Barrett
- The distinction between antisociality and mental illness / Abigail Marsh
- Repression / David G. Myers
- Mental illness is nothing but brain illness / Joel Gold and Ian Gold
- Psychogenic illness / Beatrice Golomb
- Crime entails only the actions of criminals / Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán
- Statistical significance / Charles Seife
- Scientific inference via statistical rituals / Gerd Gigerenzer
- The power of statistics / Emanuel Derman
- Reproducibility / Victoria Stodden
- The average / Nicholas A. Christakis
- Standard deviation / Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Statistical independence / Bart Kosko
- Certainty. Absolute truth. Exactitude / Richard Saul Wurman
- The illusion of scientific progress / Paul Saffo.