| Edition |
First St. Martin's Griffin edition. |
| Description |
xix, 586 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
A republication of essays originally published, 1938-1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Fearful symmetry -- The twin paradox -- Quantum wierdness -- The computer as scientist -- WAP, SAP, PAP, and FAP -- Infinity and information -- Can time stop? The past change? -- Werner Heisenberg -- Superstrings -- The ultimate turtle -- Why I am not a Smithian -- The Laffer curve -- H.G. Wells in Russia -- Beyond cultural relativism -- Klingon and other artificial languages -- Pseudscience in the nineteenth century -- The irrelevance of Conon Doyle -- |
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Wilhelm Reich and the orgone -- Freud, Fleiss, and Emma's nose -- William James and Mrs. Piper -- Close encounters of the third kind -- Mathematics and the folkways -- Mr. Apollinax visits New York -- How not to talk about mathematics -- Coleridge and The ancient mariner -- Lewis Carroll and his Alice books -- The royal historian of Oz -- Georges Perec -- Puzzles in Ulysses -- Who was Shakespeare? -- White, brown, and fractal music -- The significance of |
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"nothing" -- Newcomb's paradox -- Is "realism" a dirty word? -- The mystery of free will -- Computers near the threshold? -- The curious mind of Allan Bloom -- Isaiah Berlin : fox or hedgehog? -- Why I am not a pragmatist -- Gardner's Whys -- The Popperism of Sir Karl -- W.V. Quine -- The irrelevance of "everything" -- The strange case of Robert Maynard Hutchins -- The wandering Jew and the Second Coming -- Proofs of God -- Surprise. folkways -- |
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Apollinax visits New York -- Hownot to talk about mathematics -- Coleridge and The ancient mariner -- Lewis Carroll and his Alice books -- The royal historian of Oz -- Georges Perec -- Puzzles in Ulysses -- Who was Shakespeare? -- White, brown, and fractal music -- The significance of "nothing" -- Newcomb's paradox -- Is "realism" a dirty word? -- The mystery of free will -- Computers near the threshold? -- The curious mind of Allan Bloom -- Isaiah |
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Berlin : fox or hedgehog? -- Why I am not a pragmatist -- Gardner's Whys -- The Popperism of Sir Karl -- W.V. Quine -- The irrelevance of "everything" -- The strange case of Robert Maynard Hutchins -- The wandering Jew and the Second Coming -- Proofs of God -- Surprise. -- The significance of "nothing" -- Newcomb's paradox -- Is "realism" a dirty word? -- The mystery of free will -- Computers near the threshold? -- The curious mind of Allan Bloom -- Isaiah |
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Berlin : fox or hedgehog? -- Why I am not a pragmatist -- Gardner's Whys -- The Popperism of Sir Karl -- W.V. Quine -- The irrelevance of "everything" -- The strange case of Robert Maynard Hutchins -- The wandering Jew and the Second Coming -- Proofs of God -- Surprise. |
| ISBN |
0312169493 paperback |
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