Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008557607/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 22 of
22
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""Closer to Truth harnesses the intellectual energy of more than fifty of today's most influential minds to offer a broad exploration of today's important trends in science, philosophy, and human understanding. Over the course of twenty-eight discussions, such scientists, philosophers, and visionaries as Patricia Churchland, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Francis Fukuyama, Ray Kurzweil, Leon Lederman, Marvin Minsky, Bruce Murray, John Searle, and Neil de Grasse Tyson share their insights into a vast array of timely intellectual issues: consciousness, cosmology, creativity, sexuality, soul, and the evolution of our species and its machines."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11976493.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Closer to Truth harnesses the intellectual energy of more than fifty of today's most influential minds to offer a broad exploration of today's important trends in science, philosophy, and human understanding. Over the course of twenty-eight discussions, such scientists, philosophers, and visionaries as Patricia Churchland, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Francis Fukuyama, Ray Kurzweil, Leon Lederman, Marvin Minsky, Bruce Murray, John Searle, and Neil de Grasse Tyson share their insights into a vast array of timely intellectual issues: consciousness, cosmology, creativity, sexuality, soul, and the evolution of our species and its machines."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Brain & Mind. Ch. 1. What Is Consciousness? Ch. 2. Do Brains Make Minds? Ch. 3. Strange Physics of the Mind? Ch. 4. Can Science Seek the Soul? Ch. 5. What Is Parapsychology? Ch. 6. Can ESP Affect Your Life? -- pt. 2. Health & Sex. Ch. 7. Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race? Ch. 8. Can You Really Extend Your Life? Ch. 9. Does Sex Have a Future? Ch. 10. Who Needs Sex Therapy? -- pt. 3. Creativity & Thinking. Ch. 11. What's Creativity and Who's Creative? Ch. 12. Who Does Creativity Work at Work? Ch. 13. Can You Learn to Be Creative? Ch. 14. How Did We Think in the Last Millennium? Ch. 15. How Does Technology Transform Thinking? Ch. 16. Why Do We Make Music and Art? -- pt. 4. Technology & Society.".
- catalog extent "xxvii, 401 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0071359966".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : McGraw-Hill,".
- catalog subject "303.48/3 21".
- catalog subject "Closer to truth (Television program)".
- catalog subject "Q175.55 .C58 2000".
- catalog subject "Science Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Science and civilization.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Brain & Mind. Ch. 1. What Is Consciousness? Ch. 2. Do Brains Make Minds? Ch. 3. Strange Physics of the Mind? Ch. 4. Can Science Seek the Soul? Ch. 5. What Is Parapsychology? Ch. 6. Can ESP Affect Your Life? -- pt. 2. Health & Sex. Ch. 7. Will Gene Therapy Change the Human Race? Ch. 8. Can You Really Extend Your Life? Ch. 9. Does Sex Have a Future? Ch. 10. Who Needs Sex Therapy? -- pt. 3. Creativity & Thinking. Ch. 11. What's Creativity and Who's Creative? Ch. 12. Who Does Creativity Work at Work? Ch. 13. Can You Learn to Be Creative? Ch. 14. How Did We Think in the Last Millennium? Ch. 15. How Does Technology Transform Thinking? Ch. 16. Why Do We Make Music and Art? -- pt. 4. Technology & Society.".
- catalog title "Closer to truth : challenging current belief / [edited by] Robert Lawrence Kuhn.".
- catalog type "text".