As a writer for SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, John Horgan has an unsurpassed window on contemporary science, routinely interviewing the scientific geniuses of our times, scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking, Karl Popper and Noam Chomsky. In THE END OF SCIENCE, Horgan displays his genius for getting these larger-than-life figures to be human, whilst also encouraging them to confront the very limits of knowledge. Have the big questions all been answered? Has all the knowledge worth pursuing become known? Will there be a final 'theory of everything' that signals the end? Horgan extracts surprisingly candid answers to these and other delicate questions as he discusses God, Star Trek, superstrings, quarks, consciousness and numerous other topics. In a time where scientific rationality is under fire from every quarter, THE END OF SCIENCE is a witty, thoughtful, profound and entertaining narrative which serves as both a critique of and a homage to modern science.

The End of Science

JOHN HORGAN

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The Undiscovered Mind : How the Brain Defies Explanation

Medical Books

PHOENIX MASS MARKET P/BK

A Scientist Asks a Ground Zero Pastor: "Where Was God on September 11?" is the transcript of an actual conversation between a passionate rationalist and a clergyman engaged in the work of comforting those whose lives were shattered by the attacks of September 11, 2001. One of the world's most celebrated science writers, John Horgan, puts the big moral questions to a pastor who has been daily ministering to the survivors, the Ground Zero rescue workers, and the families and friends of the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center: How can a God of goodness condone such an evil inflicted on so many innocents? Is the God in whose name mass murder is committed the same as the God in whose love the bereaved seek comfort? Can we hope to find answers to such questions, or does the solution to the problem of evil transcend all efforts at human understanding? Can each of the world's major religions continue to claim unique access to universal truth without fomenting deadly fanaticism? 
Horgan also asks Reverend Geer practical questions about grieving, solace, healing, and persistent distress: How can people help others—and themselves— start healing after an event like September 11? Do post-9/11 symptoms such as sleeplessness, inability to concentrate, or vague dread fall within the normal range, or are they flags for clinical attention? 
Drawing on a lifetime of pastoral duty and priestly meditation, Reverend Geer answers with courage and loving-kindness Horgan's battery of tough questions in Where Was God on September 11? 
All royalties from this book go to charities selected by the authors.

Where Was God on September 11? (A Scientist Asks a Ground Zero Pastor)

Religion & Spirituality

Frank Geer

Worship & Devotion

Browntrout Publishers

I cannot recall exactly when I first learned about the extraordinary way of perceiving, knowing, and being called mysticism. Certainly by the early 1970s, when I was in my late teens, the topic was impossible to avoid.... Along with millions of others in my generation, I puzzled over esoteric mystical books, and I dabbled in yoga, meditation, and psychedelic drugs. I never dedicated myself to the mystical path, however. Friends who had done so - typically by joining one of the countless guru-led groups that sprang up in the 1960s and 1970s - seem to have abandoned their rationality and autonomy.... By the early 1980s, I had decided that science represents our best hope for improving our condition - and for understanding who we are, where we came from, where were going... Thrilled by science's ambitions, I became a science writer, and for more than a decade I wrote articles about particle physics, cosmology, complexity theory, and other fields that promised great revelations.... But I soon found that investigations of mysticism are proceeding along a broad range of scholarly and scientific thoughts. During the 1990s ordinary consciousness, once considered beneath the notice of respectable scientists, became a legitimate and increasingly popular object of investigation. Emboldened by this trend, some scientists have been focusing on exotic states of consciousness, including mystical ones.... Eventually I decided that the time was right after all for a book on mysticism... The book would be journalistic, based primarily on face-to-face interviews with leading theologians, philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and other professional ponderous of mysticism. I would assess their respective findings and conjectures, trying to determine where they converge or diverge, where they make sense or go off the deep end. ---excerpts from book's Introduction

Rational Mysticism: Dispathces From the Border Between Science and Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Houghton/Mifflin

Tsinghua University Press

Bilimin sonu: Bilim çaginin Alacakaranliginda bilginin sinirlariyla yüzlesmek. [= End of science: Facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the scientific age].

Gelenek Yayincilik

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