'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

ISBN: 9780521575508 出版年：1996 页码：186 Erwin Schrodinger Roger Penrose Cambridge University Press

Foreword Part I. Nature and the Greeks: 1. The motives for returning to ancient thought 2. The competition, reason v. senses 3. The pythagoreans 4. The Ionian enlightenment 5. The religion of Xenophanes, Heraclitus of Ephesus 6. The atomists 7. What are the special features? Part II. Science and Humanism: 1. The spiritual bearing of science on life 2. The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import 3. A radical change in our ideas of matter 4. Form, not substance, the fundamental concept 5. The nature of our 'models' 6. Continuous descriptions and causality 7. The intricacy of the continuum 8. The makeshift of wave mechanics 9. The alleged break-down of the barrier between subject and object 10. Atoms or quanta - the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum 11. Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance? 12. The bar to prediction, according to Niels Bohr Literature.