Pluto's Republic: Incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought
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Pluto's Republic: Incorporating The Art of the Soluble and Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Two conceptions of science -- Science and literature -- Further comments on psychoanalysis -- Induction and intuition in scientific thought -- Hypothesis and imagination -- Victims of psychiatry -- Darwin's illness -- Type A behaviour and your heart -- The crab -- Unnatural science -- Technology and evolution -- Does ethology throw any light on human behaviour? -- Taking the measure of man -- Herbert Spencer and the law of general evolution -- D'Arcy Thompson and Growth and form -- The phenomenon of man -- The act of creation -- J.B.S. -- Lucky Jim -- House in order -- A biological retrospect -- Expectation and prediction -- Science and the sanctity of life -- On 'the effecting of all things possible.'
