Description: Further DetailsTitle: This Idea Must DieCondition: NewEAN: 9780062374349ISBN: 9780062374349Publisher: HarperPerennialFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/26/2015Item Height: 203mmItem Length: 135mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: John BrockmanLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking ProgressISBN-10: 0062374346Description: The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress? Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org-"The world's smartest website" (The Guardian)-challenges some of the world's greatest scientists, artists, and philosophers to answer a provocative question crucial to our time. In 2014 he asked 175 brilliant minds to ponder: What scientific idea needs to be put aside in order to make room for new ideas to advance? The answers are as surprising as they are illuminating.In : * Steven Pinker dismantles the working theory of human behavior * Richard Dawkins renounces essentialism * Sherry Turkle reevaluates our expectations of artificial intelligence * Geoffrey West challenges the concept of a "Theory of Everything" * Andrei Linde suggests that our universe and its laws may not be as unique as we think * Martin Rees explains why scientific understanding is a limitless goal * Nina Jablonski argues to rid ourselves of the concept of race * Alan Guth rethinks the origins of the universe * Hans Ulrich Obrist warns against glorifying unlimited economic growth * and much more. Profound, engaging, thoughtful, and groundbreaking, This Idea Must Die will change your perceptions and understanding of our world today ...and tomorrow.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Edge Question SeriesGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Society & Culture, Arts & Photography, Home Garden & Pets, Language & Reference, Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: This Idea Must Die
Title: This Idea Must Die
EAN: 9780062374349
ISBN: 9780062374349
Release Date: 03/26/2015
Release Year: 2015
Subtitle: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
ISBN-10: 0062374346
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Edge Question Series
Book Title: This Idea Must Die : Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress
Number of Pages: 592 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Topic: General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Logic, Essays
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2015
Genre: Philosophy, Science, Psychology
Item Weight: 15.5 Oz
Author: John Brockman
Item Length: 8 in
Book Series: Edge Question Ser.
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
