What We Believe but Cannot Prove
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What We Believe but Cannot Prove

Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

What We Believe but Cannot Prove

Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

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Information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780060841812
eBook ISBN
9780061828102
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Contents

PREFACE
The Edge Question

INTRODUCTION
by Ian McEwan

CONTRIBUTORS
Martin Rees
Ray Kurzweil
Douglas Rushkoff
Richard Dawkins
Chris Anderson
Stephen Petranek
Carolyn Porco
Paul C. W. Davies
Kenneth W. Ford
Karl Sabbagh
J. Craig Venter
Leon Lederman
Maria Spiropulu
Philip W. Anderson
Robert M. Sapolsky
Jesse Bering
Ian McEwan
Michael Shermer
Susan Blackmore
Randolph M. Nesse, M.D
Tor Nørretranders
Scott Atran
David G. Myers
Jonathan Haidt
Sam Harris
David Buss
Seth Lloyd
Denis Dutton
Jared Diamond
Timothy Taylor
Judith Rich Harris
John H. McWhorter
Elizabeth Spelke
Stephen H...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Martin Rees
  8. Ray Kurzweil
  9. Douglas Rushkoff
  10. Richard Dawkins
  11. Chris Anderson
  12. Stephen Petranek
  13. Carolyn Porco
  14. Paul C. W. Davies
  15. Kenneth W. Ford
  16. Karl Sabbagh
  17. J. Craig Venter
  18. Leon Lederman
  19. Maria Spiropulu
  20. Philip W. Anderson
  21. Robert M. Sapolsky
  22. Jesse Bering
  23. Ian McEwan
  24. Michael Shermer
  25. Susan Blackmore
  26. Randolph M. Nesse, M.D
  27. Tor Nørretranders
  28. Scott Atran
  29. David G. Myers
  30. Jonathan Haidt
  31. Sam Harris
  32. David Buss
  33. Seth Lloyd
  34. Denis Dutton
  35. Jared Diamond
  36. Timothy Taylor
  37. Judith Rich Harris
  38. John H. McWhorter
  39. Elizabeth Spelke
  40. Stephen H. Schneider
  41. Bruce Sterling
  42. Robert Trivers
  43. Verena Huber-Dyson
  44. Keith Devlin
  45. Freeman Dyson
  46. Rebecca Goldstein
  47. Stuart A. Kauffman
  48. Leonard Susskind
  49. Donald D. Hoffman
  50. Terrence Sejnowski
  51. John Horgan
  52. Arnold Trehub
  53. Ned Block
  54. Janna Levin
  55. Daniel Gilbert
  56. Todd E. Feinberg, M.D.
  57. Clifford Pickover
  58. Nicholas Humphrey
  59. Pamela McCorduck
  60. Charles Simonyi
  61. Alan Kay
  62. Steven Pinker
  63. Christine Finn
  64. Daniel C. Dennett
  65. Alun Anderson
  66. Joseph LeDoux
  67. George Dyson
  68. Alison Gopnik
  69. Paul Bloom
  70. William H. Calvin
  71. Robert R. Provine
  72. Stanislas Dehaene
  73. Stephen Kosslyn
  74. Alex Pentland
  75. Irene Pepperberg
  76. Howard Gardner
  77. David Gelernter
  78. Marc D. Hauser
  79. Gary Marcus
  80. Brian Goodwin
  81. Leo M. Chalupa
  82. Margaret Wertheim
  83. Gino Segrè
  84. Haim Harari
  85. Donald I. Williamson
  86. Ian Wilmut
  87. Daniel Goleman
  88. Esther Dyson
  89. James J. O’Donnell
  90. Jean Paul Schmetz
  91. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  92. Simon Baron-Cohen
  93. Kevin Kelly
  94. Martin Nowak
  95. Tom Standage
  96. Steven Giddings
  97. Alexander Vilenkin
  98. Lawrence M. Krauss
  99. John D. Barrow
  100. Paul J. Steinhardt
  101. Lee Smolin
  102. Anton Zeilinger
  103. Gregory Benford
  104. Rudy Rucker
  105. Carlo Rovelli
  106. Jeffrey Epstein
  107. Howard Rheingold
  108. Jaron Lanier
  109. Marti Hearst
  110. Kai Krause
  111. Oliver Morton
  112. W. Daniel Hillis
  113. Martin E. P. Seligman
  114. Neil Gershenfeld
  115. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  116. About the Author
  117. Books by John Brockman
  118. Credits
  119. Copyright
  120. About the Publisher