Man & the universe : the philosophers of science / edited by Saxe Commins and Robert N. Linscott

Additional Titles: Man and the universe
Published: New York : Washington Square Press, [1954]
Physical Description: 484 pages ; 17 cm.
Additional Creators: Commins, Saxe and Linscott, Robert N. (Robert Newton), 1886-1964

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Series

World's great thinkers (Washington Square Press (New York, N.Y.)) ; [4].

Contents

On the nature of things (Book V) / Lucretius -- On the revolutions of the celestial spheres / Nicholas Copernicus -- Novum organum (Book I) / Francis Bacon -- Discourse on method / René Descartes -- The positive philosophy / Auguste Comte -- Recapitulation and conclusion (from The origin of species) / Charles Darwin -- The evolution of life (from Creative evolution) / Henri Bergson -- The method of dream-interpretation / Sigmund Freud -- The dream as wish-fulfilment / Sigmund Freud -- Science and philosophy / Alfred North Whitehead -- Some problems of philosophy / Sir James Jeans -- Reality, causation, science and mysticism / Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington -- The problem of space, ether and the field in physics / Albert Einstein.

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Collection

Penn State University Archives Book and Serial Collection.

Note

Rare Books PSUA collection copy: 2nd printing, November 1966.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of Acquisition

PSU Archives copy: Gift of John A. Lucas; 2011.

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