
Science and Myth
With a Response to Stephen Hawking's The Grand Design
Wolfgang Smith(Author)
Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 11. July 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
242 pages
979-8-9851470-8-7 (ISBN)
Description
Unrecognized and unacknowledged as the fact may be, science too has its mythology. Starting with a profound clarification of this basic issue, Wolfgang Smith goes on to explain the metaphysical significance of scientific findings relating to visual perception, the relation of neurons to mind, and much else, leading to the central chapter on Stephen Hawking's bestselling book, The Grand Design. Professor Smith first presents Hawking's case, summarizing his entire argument-in which Hawking claims that the very existence of the universe can be explained on scientific grounds-and then proceeds with a magisterial point-by-point rebuttal that leaves Hawking's thesis in tatters. The author closes with a discussion of metaphysics as a "seeing of the Real" which transcends the limitations of scientific modes of knowledge.
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Edition
3rd ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-9851470-8-7 (9798985147087)
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WOLFGANG SMITH (1930-), physicist and mathematician, has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California (UCLA). Among his numerous works are Cosmos and Transcendence, The Quantum Enigma, and Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions.