La visione scientifica del mondo

by Bertrand Russell (Autore)

Paperback, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

500

Genres

Collections

Scienza: Storia, Filosofia e Testimonianze, Pensiero Politico e Filosofia

Publication

Laterza (2009), Edition: 4, 203 pages

Description

'A scientific opinion is one which there is some reason to believe is true; an unscientific opinion is one which is held for some reason other than its probable truth.' - Bertrand Russell One of Russell's most important books, this early classic on science illuminates his thinking on the promise and threat of scientific progress. Russell considers three questions fundamental to an understanding of science: the nature and scope of scientific knowledge, the increased power over nature that science affords, and the changes in the lives of human beings that result from new forms of science. With customary wit and clarity, Russell offers brilliant discussions of many major scientific figures, including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton and Darwin. With a new introduciton by David Papineau, King's College, London.… (more)

Media reviews

Daily Telegraph

An unbroken mood of felicity seems to have visited Mr. Bertrand Russell while he wrote The Scientific Outlook. It is an extraordinarily gay and inspiring work, full of the good sense that comes from intellectual vitality. If a boy or girl of sixteen can be found who does not like this, they should

be removed from school and sent somewhere else; he or she is not getting the right sort of education... The Scientific Outlook makes no cheap pretence that the universe is a box of tricks which any B.Sc. can turn inside out. On the contrary, it passes on to a lively description of what a hell the world would become if there were only science to shape it; and in an eloquent last chapter Mr. Russell declares that though “knowledge is good and ignorance is evil–to this principle the lover of the world can admit no exception,” the ultimate usefulness of science depends on the system of values it upholds.

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