Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science

by E. Brian Davies

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198704992
• ISBN13: 9780198704997
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"