Sarah m coyne biography of albert einstein
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Faith vs. Fact: Jerry Coyne&#;s flawed epistemology
The first thing that needs to be said about Professor Jerry Coyne&#;s new book, Faith vs. Fact, is that it gets right to the heart of the matter, in addressing the central conflict between science (or as I would say, scientism) and religion. Coyne views the conflict as an epistemic one: as he recently put it, &#;It&#;s a conflict between how you justify, or how you have confidence in, what you believe &#; or what you know.&#; Scientists accept hypotheses as true only after a rigorous process of testing, while most ordinary people (especially religious believers) would maintain that there are at least some beliefs which are warranted without any need for further testing on our part &#; for example, self-evident metaphysical truths (&#;Nothing comes to be without a cause&#;), observations which are supported by a sufficiently large number of eyewitnesses (&#; people saw the risen Jesus, so that settles it&#;), artistic judgments (
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Bechler, Zev. Newton’s Physics and the Conceptual Structure of the Scientific Revolution. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic,
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A study of the history and philosophy of physics that begins with Plato and Aristotle and continues through Copernicus, Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes and on to a detailed study of Newton’s contributions to the field. Also looks at Leibniz and Berkeley’s alternate views. Includes an appendix outlining “Some Basic Ideas in Newton’s Physics.”
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DiSalle, Robert. Understanding Space-Time: The Philosophical Development of Physics from Newton to Einstein. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
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A popular image persists of Albert Einstein as a loner, someone who avoided the hustle and bustle of everyday life in favor of quiet contemplation. Yet Einstein was deeply engaged with politics throughout his life; indeed, he was so active politically that the U.S. government kept him under bevakning for decades, compiling a page secret file on his political activities. His most enduring scientific legacy, the General Theory of Relativity – physicists&#; reigning explanation for gravity and the grund for nearly all our thinking about the universum – has likewise been cast as an austere temple standing aloof from the all-too-human dramas of political history. But was it so? This lecture examines ways in which research on general relativity was embedded in, and at times engulfed bygd, the upplopp of world politics over the course of the twentieth century.
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