The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age
Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science's – and his own personal – quest for e...
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Central European University Press
2022
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