03205nam 2200769Ia 450 991096066030332120240912154405.00-19-028262-21-280-45116-50-19-802435-597866104511661-60256-038-2(CKB)1000000000028766(EBL)241266(OCoLC)475955888(SSID)ssj0000367087(PQKBManifestationID)12133722(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000367087(PQKBWorkID)10418036(PQKB)10533592(SSID)ssj0000263982(PQKBManifestationID)11227563(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000263982(PQKBWorkID)10282237(PQKB)11396029(Au-PeEL)EBL241266(CaPaEBR)ebr10086926(CaONFJC)MIL45116(Au-PeEL)EBL2012800(OCoLC)958511228(MiAaPQ)EBC241266(MiAaPQ)EBC2012800(OCoLC)28221750(FINmELB)ELB168901(EXLCZ)99100000000002876619930518d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUncommon sense the heretical nature of science /Alan Cromer1st ed.New York Oxford University Press19931 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-508213-3 0-19-509636-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index.Contents; 1. Aspects of Science; 2. Mind and Magic; 3. From Apes to Agriculture; 4. Prophets and Poets; 5. Theorems and Planets; 6. Sages and Scholars; 7. Towns and Gowns; 8. Science and Nonsense; 9. Are We Alone?; 10. Education for an Age of Science; APPENDIX A: Hindu Trigonometry; APPENDIX B: An Integrated Science Course for Nonscience Students; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZMost people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual development. But physicist and educator Alan Cromer disputes this belief. Cromer argues that science is not the natural unfolding of human potential, but the invention of a particular culture, Greece, in a particular historical period. Indeed, far from being natural, scientific thinking goes so far against the grain of conventional human thought that if it hadn't been discovered in Greece, it might not have been discovered at all. In Uncommon SeSciencePhilosophyScienceHistoryThought and thinkingSciencePhilosophy.ScienceHistory.Thought and thinking.501501Cromer Alan H.1935-43603MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910960660303321Uncommon sense4410437UNINA