Science Wars: What Scientists Know and How They Know It
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36 Lectures 1 The Evolution of 20th-Century Science 2 Redefining Reality 3 Quantum Theory Makes Its Appearance 4 The Heroic "Old" Age of Quantum Theory 5 A Newer Theory-QED 6 QED Meets Fission and Fusion 7 Learning by Smashing 8 What Good is QED? 9 The Newest Theory-Quantum Chromodynamics 10 Unifying Nature 11 Chemists Become Designers 12 Mathematics and Truth 13 Mathematics and Reality 14 The Universe Expands 15 What is the Universe? 16 How Do We Know What's Out There? 17 From Equilibrium to Dynamism 18 Subterranean Fury 19 Solar System Citizen 20 Science Organized, Adopted, Co-opted 21 Techno-Science and Globalization 22 The Evolution of Evolution 23 Human Evolution 24 Genetics-From Mendel to Molecules 25 Molecular Biology 26 Molecular Medicine 27 Culture-Anthropology and Archaeology 28 Culture-History 29 Culture-Linguistics 30 Society-Sociology 31 Society-Political Science 32 Society-Economics 33 Mind-Classical and Behavioral Psychology 34 Mind-Cybernetics, AI, Connectionism 35 Looking Back 36 Looking Around and Looking Ahead