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Closer To Truth: Science, Meaning, and the Future
by: Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Format: PDF, 329 pages.
Published: February 28, 2007, by Praeger
ISBN-10: 0-275-99389-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99389-4
Purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Closer-Truth-Science-Meaning-Future/dp/0275993892
From the publisher:
Closer To Truth: Science, Meaning, and the Future explores the latest scientific research, philosophical thinking, and expressions of human creativity. Some of the worlds most esteemed expertsNobel laureates, best-selling authors, and renowned scholarsengage in spontaneous and intimate conversations that combine hard facts with an inspiringand breathtakinglook into our future. Based on the public television program of the same name, Closer To Truth features distinguished specialists who forcefully debate provocative subjects that have broad ramifications for the population at large: Who gets to validate alternative medicine? How does basic science support national security? Can we believe in both religion and science? At the heart is the question: how will scientific advances and the philosophical issues they create affect the individual as well as humanity as a whole?
Whether the subject is the meaning of human consciousness, the ethics of testing experimental drugs on sick people, scientific thinking versus religious beliefs, or how music may help mental development, Closer To Truth uncovers exciting new lines of inquiry and offers fresh perspectives. Participants include Nobel laureates Murray Gell-Mann and David Baltimore; authors Michael Crichton, Octavia Butler, and David Brin; astrophysicists Alan Guth and Neil deGrasse Tyson; planetary scientist Bruce Murray; physicist Steven Koonin; quantum theorist Seth Lloyd; molecular biologist Lucy Shapiro; neuroscientists Nancy Andreasen, Terry Sejnowski, and Christof Koch; psychiatrist Leslie Brothers; Psychology Todays Robert Epstein; musicologists Jeanne Bamberger and Robert Freeman; ethicist Alexander Capron; skeptic Michael Shermer;
