Science matters : humanities as complex systems / Maria Burguete, Lui Lam, editors.

All earnest and honest human quests for knowledge are efforts to understand Nature, which includes both human and nonhuman systems, the objects of study in science. Thus, broadly speaking, all these quests are in the science domain. The methods and tools used may be different; for example, the liter...

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Other Authors: Burguete, Maria, Lam, Lui
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Published: Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2008.
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505 0 |a Preface; Contents; 1 Science Matters: A Unified Perspective Lui Lam; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 What Is Science?; 1.3 The Origin and Nature of the Two Cultures; 1.4 Demarcation According to Human and Nonhuman Systems; 1.5 Simple and Complex Systems; 1.6 Science Matters; 1.7 Implications of Science Matters; 1.8 Discussion and Conclusion; References; PART I ART AND CULTURE; 2 Culture THROUGH Science: A New World of Images and Stories Paul Caro; 3 Physiognomy in Science and Art: Properties of a Natural Body Inferred from Its Appearance Brigitte Hoppe. 
505 8 |a 4 Has Neuroscience Any Theological Consequence? Alfredo Dinis5 SciComm, PopSci and The Real World Lui Lam; PART II PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE; 6 The Tripod of Science: Communication, Philosophy and Education Nigel Sanitt; 7 History and Philosophy of Science: Towards a New Epistemology Maria Burguete; 8 Philosophy of Science and Chinese Sciences: The Multicultural View of Science and a Unified Ontological Perspective Bing Liu; 9 Evolution of the Concept of Science Communication in China Da-Guang Li; 10 History of Science in Globalizing Time Dun Liu; PART III RAISING SCIENTIFIC LEVEL. 
505 8 |a 11 Why Markets Are Moral Michael Shermer12 Towards the Understanding of Human Dynamics Tao Zhou, Xiao-Pu Han and Bing-Hong Wang; 13 Human History: A Science Matter Lui Lam; References; Contributors; Index. 
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