
By Helge Kragh
ISBN-10: 0198726376
ISBN-13: 9780198726371
ISBN-10: 0199599882
ISBN-13: 9780199599882
belong to technological know-how in any respect? that are the epistemic criteria on which an alleged medical idea of the universe - or the multiverse - is to be judged? Such questions are presently being mentioned through physicists and cosmologists, yet hardly inside a historic viewpoint. This ebook argues that these
questions have a background and that wisdom of the old improvement of 'higher speculations' may perhaps tell and qualify the present debate at the nature and boundaries of medical explanation.
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