Marcelo Gleiser

The Island of Knowledge

The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
Sprecher: Neenan, William

• MP3-CD

Produktbeschreibung

Why discovering the limits to science may be the most powerful discovery of all. How much can we know about the world? In this audiobook physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing he reaches a provocative conclusion: Science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know. Gleiser shows that by abandoning the dualistic model that divides reality into the known and the unknown, we can embark on a third way based on the acceptance of our limitations. Only then, he argues, will we be truly able to experience freedom, for to be free in an age of science we cannot turn science into a god. Gleiser ultimately offers an uplifting exploration of humanity's longing to conquer the unknown and of science's power to transform and inspire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brilliance Audio
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 660 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781511318938
• Artikelnr.: 43117175

Autorenporträt

Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. The author of three previous books, The Dancing Universe, The Prophet and the Astronomer, and A Tear at the Edge of Creation, Gleiser lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.