Science, Order and Creativity

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-58485-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 385 g

Reihe: Routledge Classics

One of the foremost scientists and thinkers of our time, David Bohm worked alongside Oppenheimer and Einstein. In Science, Order and Creativity he and physicist F. David Peat propose a return to greater creativity and communication in the sciences. They ask for a renewed emphasis on ideas rather than formulae, on the whole rather than fragments, and on meaning rather than mere mechanics. Tracing the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein, from the Pythagorean theorem to quantum mechanics, the authors offer intriguing new insights into how scientific theories come into being, how to eliminate blocks to creativity and how science can lead to a deeper understanding of society, the human condition and the human mind itself. Science, Order and Creativity looks to the future of science with elegance, hope and enthusiasm.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bohm, David

Peat, F. David

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Introduction. Chapter 1 - Revolutions, Theories and Creativity in Science. Chapter 2 - Science as Creative Perception-Communication. Chapter 3 - What is Order?. Chapter 4 - The Generative Order and the Implicate Order. Chapter 5 - Generative Order in Science, Society, and Consciousness. Chapter 6 - Creativity in the Whole of Life. Chapter 7 - The Order Between and Beyond.

Über Autor(innen)

David Bohm (1917-1992) was Professor of Theoretical Physics at Birkbeck College, London, and one of the most original thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century.
F. David Peat (b. 1938) is a holistic physicist and author of several books on the subjects of science, art, philosophy, psychology and society.