Infinite in All Directions (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Freeman J. Dyson
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology, Lectures
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Future, Science or scientists, Economics, Ethics, Medical ethics, Technology, Theology, Life sciences
The Gifford Lectureships, according to the will of Adam Gifford (1820-1887), the Scottish judge whose bequest established them, are intended “for promoting, advancing, teaching, and diffusing the study of natural theology, in the widest sense of that term, in other words, the knowledge of God” and “of the foundations of ethics.” Important philosophical works such as William James's Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929), and Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical...
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