Status
Available
Genres
Publication
Discovery Institute (2023), 298 pages
Description
Polymath and raconteur David Berlinski is at it again, challenging the shibboleths of contemporary science with his inimitable blend of deep learning, close reasoning, and rapier wit. In Science After Babel he reflects on everything from Newton, Einstein, and Gödel to catastrophe theory, information theory, and the morass that is modern Darwinism. The scientific enterprise is unarguably impressive, but it shows no sign of reaching the empyrean heights it seemed to promise a century ago. "It resembles Bruegel's Tower of Babel," Berlinski says, "and if it suggests anything at all, it suggests that its original plans have somehow been lost." Science endures. Scientism, it would seem, is guttering out.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
298 p.; 9 inches
ISBN
1637120265 / 9781637120262
Local notes
"Berlinski...reflects on everything from Newton, Einstein, and Gòˆdel to catastrophe theory, information theory, and the morass that is modern Darwinism."