The dignity of science;

Weisheipl, James A.,

The dignity of science; studies in the philosophy of science, presented to William Humbert Kane. Edited, with introd. by James A. Weisheipl in collaboration with the Thomist and the Albertus Magnus Lyceum. Pref. by Michael Browne. - [Washington] Thomist Press, 1961. - xxxiii, 526 p.

"Originally published as a special issue of the Thomist, volume XXIV, nos. 2, 3, & 4, April, July, October, 1961." From the fact of evolution to the philosophy of evolutionism, by R.J. Nogar.--The rhythmic universe, by M.A. McDowell.--Mind, brain, and biochemistry, by A.S. Moraczewski.--Conscience and superego, by M. Stock.--Contemporary challenge to the traditional ideal of science, by A. McNicholl.--A social science founded on a unified natural science, by B.M. Ashley.--The role of science in liberal education, by M.O. Barrett.--American Catholics and science, by P.H. Yancey.--The writing of William Humbert Kane, O.P. (p. 524-526)

Demonstration and self-evidence, by E.D. Simmons.--The significance of the universal ut nune, by J.A. Oesterle.--William Harvey, M.D.: modern or ancient scientist? by H. Ratner.--Medicine and philosophy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries: the problem of elements, by R.P. McKeon.--The origins of the problem of the unity of form, by D.A. Callus.--The celestial movers in medieval physics, by J.A. Weisheipl.--Gravitational motion according to Theodoric of Freiberg, by W.A. Wallace.--"Mining all within," Clarke's notes to Rohault's Traité de physique, by M.A. Hoskin.--Darwin's dilemma, by C. DeKoninck.--[phi]úsló: the meaning of nature in the Aristotelian philosophy of nature, by S. O'F. Brennan.--Order in the philosophy of nature, by M. Glutz.--Motionless motions, by R.A. Kocourek.--Time, the measure of movement, by Sister M. Jocelyn.--Evolution and entropy, by V.E. Smith.


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