The Undiscovered Mind (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Horgan
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Science, technology, medicine, and history of science
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: The United States and Western Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Psychology or psychologists, Europe or Europeans, Mental illness, Drugs, Mysticism, Artificial intelligence, Research, Mind and body, Brain
- Locales: Europe, United States
When John Horgan, a journalist who has been called the enfant terrible of modern science, published The End of Science (1996), the book provoked much discussion and controversy. The discussion centered on what Horgan called “ironic science,” speculations about the world that can be neither verified nor falsified by actual experiments. The controversy brewed over his claim that the scientific enterprise was exhausted, that every great scientific discovery that can be made has been made, and the remaining task for scientists is filling in these big pictures with increasingly...
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