Displaying 1 of 1 1982 Format: Book Author: Medawar, P. B. (Peter Brian), 1915-1987. Title: Pluto's Republic / Peter Medawar. Publisher, Date: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982. Description: x, 351 pages ; 23 cm Subjects: Science -- Philosophy. Other Author: Medawar, P. B. (Peter Brian), 1915-1987. Art of the soluble. Medawar, P. B. (Peter Brian), 1915-1987. Induction and intuition in scientific thought. Notes: "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.' LCCN: 81022333 ISBN: 0192177265 9780192177261 Other Number: 8032732 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 86942 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 501 Medawar Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
