Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science

by E. Brian Davies

Book Overview

This book discusses deep problems about our place in the world with a minimum of technical jargon. It argues that 'absolutist' ideas dating back to Plato continue to mislead generations of theoretical physicists and theologians. It explains that the multi-layered nature of our present descriptions of the world is unavoidable, not because of anything about the world but because of our own human natures. It tries to rescue mathematics from the singular...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199586209
• ISBN13: 9780199586202
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"