Lectures and Essays: Volume 2 - Brossura

Clifford, William Kingdon

 
9781108040952: Lectures and Essays: Volume 2

Sinossi

Essays by mathematician William Clifford, bridging the pure and social sciences in the wake of Darwinism, published posthumously in 1879.

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Descrizione del libro

Remembered for a mind 'most difficult to describe in its powers, its strangeness, its uniqueness', William Clifford (1845–79) integrated mathematics, ethics and evolution in this two-volume work of 1879, a posthumous collection of public addresses and writings edited by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock.

Contenuti

Lectures and Essays continued: 8. Instruments used in measurement; 9. Body and mind; 10. On the nature of things-in-themselves; 11. On the types of compound statement involving four classes; 12. On the scientific basis of morals; 13. Right and wrong: the scientific ground of their distinction; 14. The ethics of belief; 15. The ethics of religion; 16. The influence upon morality of a decline in religious belief; Cosmic emotion; Virchow on the teaching of science.

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