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Peter Medawar
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Pluto's Republic: Incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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362 |
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1982-11-11 |
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0192177265 |
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Oxford University Press, USA |
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1.25 pounds |
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5.6 x 8.7 x 1.5 inches |
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First Thus |
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Product Description
Contents: Two conceptions of science -- Science and literature -- Further comments on psychoanalysis -- Induction and intuition in scientific thought -- Hypothesis and imagination -- Victims of psychiatry -- Darwin's illness -- Type A behaviour and your heart -- The crab -- Unnatural science -- Technology and evolution -- Does ethology throw any light on human behaviour? -- Taking the measure of man -- Herbert Spencer and the law of general evolution -- D'Arcy Thompson and Growth and form -- The phenomenon of man -- The act of creation -- J.B.S. -- Lucky Jim -- House in order -- A biological retrospect -- Expectation and prediction -- Science and the sanctity of life -- On 'the effecting of all things possible.'
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http://bookmooch.com/0192177265 |
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