ENCOUNTERS WITH EINSTEIN by Werner Heisenberg ( 9780691024332 )

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Title:

ENCOUNTERS WITH EINSTEIN
AND OTHER ESSAYS ON PEOPLE, PLACES, AND PARTICLES

By:

Werner Heisenberg

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0691024332

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9780691024332

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 October, 1989

Series:

Princeton Science Library

Pages:

152

Description:

Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? This title discusses these issues in the far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.

Synopsis:

In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.

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