William Kingdon Clifford

Lectures and Essays

Herausgeber: Pollock, Frederick; Stephen, Leslie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9781108040952
• ISBN-10: 1108040950
• Artikelnr.: 34571061

Inhaltsangabe

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.