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| Introduction | ||
| Selected Further Readings | ||
| 1 | On Goethe's Scientific Researchers (1853) | 1 |
| 2 | On the Interaction of the Natural Forces (1854) | 18 |
| 3 | On the Physiological Causes of Harmony in Music (1857) | 46 |
| 4 | On the Relation of Natural Science to Science in General (1862) | 76 |
| 5 | On the Conservation of Force (1862-63) | 96 |
| 6 | The Recent Progress of the Theory of Vision (1868) | 127 |
| 7 | On the Aim and Progress of Physical Science (1869) | 204 |
| 8 | On the Origin and Significance of Geometrical Axioms (1870) | 226 |
| 9 | On the Origin of the Planetary System (1871) | 249 |
| 10 | On the Relation of Optics to Painting (1871) | 279 |
| 11 | On Thought in Medicine (1877) | 309 |
| 12 | On Academic Freedom in German Universities (1877) | 328 |
| 13 | The Facts in Perception (1878) | 342 |
| 14 | Hermann von Helmholtz. An Autobiographical Sketch (1891) | 381 |
| 15 | Goethe's Presentiments of Coming Scientific Ideas (1892) | 393 |
| Index | 413 |
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Kathleen Driscoll
reviewed Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays on December 27, 2013
Science and Culture
It's hard to say i've read it. tried to absorb? yes. failed dramatically? Y E S.
the "realism and anti-realism" chapter was somehow compulsory reading for our course. it started nice, Dummett flashed a little bit of his dry humour, for a moment thought "oh, he sounds almost as nice as Quine or Searle", but the further I went, the worse it got. fast jumps from one idea to another, "oh, btw, X found a good solution *insert vague description of it here* NOW BACK TO THE TOPIC... OR MAYBE THE OPPOSITE STANCE FOR TWO SENTENCES?"
to be fair, from my limited philosophical knowledge I appreciate the multiangularity of Dummet's work, and I'm definitely more mad at my lecturer who practically threw us in at the deep end after much easier texts. maybe when i'll have broader philosophical knowledge i'll return to Dummett someday. or maybe not.
oh, and one last word: LECTURERS HAVE MERCY UPON US. we students quite stupid. very stupid students. and poor, and tired. in the sea of language we are a tiny plankton and the pressure of Dummett's logorrhoea crushes us
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