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Horgan, John, 1953-

The end of science : facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the scientific age / John Horgan, [with a new afterword].

First Broadway books trade paperback edition

New York : Broadway Books, 1997.

xii, 322 pages ; 21 cm

"Have we reached the end of science? Pursue this and other provocative questions with John Horgan as he tours the entire scientific landscape through his exclusive interviews with: Roger Penrose, Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Man, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Kuhn, Chris Langton, Karl Popper, Steven Weinberg, E. O. Wilson, Noam Chomsky, John Wheeler, Clifford Geertz, David Bohm, Daniel Dennett, Gerald Edelman, Paul Feyerabend, Francis Fukuyama, Fred Hoyle, Stuart Kauffman, Lynn Margulis, Marvin Minsky, Hans Moravec, Ilya Prigogine, Gunther Stent, Frank Tipler, Sheldon Glashow, Edward Witten, David Schramm, John Eccles, Philip Anderson, Gregory Chaitin, Charles Hartsthorne, Bentley Glass, Leo Kadanoff, Hans Bethe, Stanley Miller, Andrei Linde, Mitchell Feigenbaum" -- Back cover.

Science -- Philosophy.

Science -- History.

Science.

Philosophy.

History.

Facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the scientific age

Originally published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub., ©1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.

The end of progress -- The end of philosophy -- The end of physics -- The end of cosmology -- the end of evolutionary biology -- The end of social science -- The end of neuroscience -- The end of chaoplexity -- The end of limitology -- Scientific theology, or the end of machine science -- Epilogue : the terror of God -- Afterword : loose ends.

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