The Map and the Territory: Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought and Reality By Shyam WuppuluriEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 638 Pages | ISBN : 3319724770 | 15.18 MB
This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle and Ian Stewart. Together they illuminate the very foundations of science and the scientific enterprise. The authors examine, from various perspectives, the complex relations between reality per se and our human descriptions of the world, as deduced in the process of scientific discovery.