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Why Beliefs Matter : Reflections on the Nature of Science

by E. Brian Davies

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0198704992
ISBN-13 9780198704997
Publisher Oxford University Press
Imprint Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Apr 17th, 2014
Print length 262 Pages
Weight 406 grams
Dimensions 23.50 x 15.90 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification: Philosophy Religion & science Society & culture: general Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge Mathematics
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This book discusses deep problems about our place in the world with a minimum of jargon. It argues that 'absolutist' ideas dating back to Plato continue to mislead generations of mathematicians, physicists, and theologians, and reveals the underlying reasons for the current conflicts between science and religion.
In the follow-up to his acclaimed Science in the Looking Glass, Brian Davies discusses deep problems about our place in the world, using a minimum of technical jargon. The book argues that ''absolutist'' ideas of the objectivity of science, dating back to Plato, continue to mislead generations of both theoretical physicists and theologians. It explains that the multi-layered nature of our present descriptions of the world is unavoidable, not because of anything about the world, but because of our own human natures. It tries to rescue mathematics from the singular and exceptional status that it has been assigned, as much by those who understand it as by those who do not. Working throughout from direct quotations from many of the important contributors to its subject, it concludes with a penetrating criticism of many of the recent contributions to the often acrimonious debates about science and religions.

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