Knowledge and Ignorance
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Knowledge and Ignorance

Essays on Lights and Shadows

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Knowledge and Ignorance

Essays on Lights and Shadows

About this book

Dovring explores the limits of science as causes of ignorance. Some topics examined in these essays are problems with our ways of knowing and the impact of emotion on objectivity. He argues that reality consists of designs—of things and processes. While most designs we might think of cannot exist, those that can exist add up to a tool box of creation which contains the detailed laws of nature, many of them synergisms. Reality must conform to this web of necessities, hence the danger of unchecked virtual reality. These lines of thought are then applied to evolution as creation and history. In a final essay, Dovring explores topics upon which science should concentrate. This book will be of interest to scientists as well as the lay public interested in the theory of science and questions of truth and faith.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. One: Beyond Science: Limits and Problems
  4. Two: Lighted Room: The Ways We See Things
  5. Three: Just Inside: The Ways We Know Things
  6. Four: Beyond Reach: Things We May Never Know
  7. Five: Design: The Ways Things Are Made
  8. Six: Process: The Ways Things Work
  9. Seven: Logos: The Ways Things Must Be
  10. Eight: Creation: The Ways Our World Was Made
  11. Nine: History: Limits of Science in Human Affairs
  12. Ten: What For? Or, What Price Knowledge?
  13. References
  14. Index