From ancient times to the present, western civilization has been driven by a trust in scientific progress. "Is Science Nearing its Limits?" asks whether this is still the case. Are limits, reductions in expectation now in sight? Biology and biogenetics promise spectacular advances, mathematics unfolds new areas of understanding. And yet it may be that the great classical sciences and their self-confidence are ebbing. The possibility that string theory can neither be verified nor falsified may entail a crisis in the very concept of what constitutes a science. Have we reached the limits of what can be understood of our universe? A fuller understanding of consciousness may prove elusive.Twenty-first-century science is characterized by incompleteness and indeterminacy. If this were so, it would constitute a vast revolution in every domain of consciousness and society. In the fourteen challenging, inspiring papers collected here, thinkers working at the leading edge of their intellectual fields explore some of the possible consequences for society and for the future of science itself.
- ISBN10 184777007X
- ISBN13 9781847770073
- Publish Date 31 July 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 August 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
- Imprint Lives and Letters
- Format Paperback
- Pages 232
- Language English