Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction: Expansionism and Restrictionism 1
5. I. The Physical Sciences
6. Physical Knowledge and Values
7. 1. The New Physics 35
8. Physical Knowledge and Society
9. 2. Eddington and the English-Speaking World 67
10. 3. Fock and the Soviet Union 88
11. 4. Heisenberg and Germany 102
12. 5. Bergson, Monod, and France 136
13. Part II. The Biological Sciences
14. Biological Knowledge and Values
15. 6. Studying Animals to Learn About Man 161
16. 7. Primatology and Sociobiology 189
17. Biological Knowledge and Society
18. 8. Eugenics: Weimar Germany And Soviet Russia 217
19. 9. Biomedical Ethics 257
20. Part III. Reactions to the Dilemma of Science and Values
21. 10. Public Concerns About Science and Technology: The Question of Limits of Inquiry 291
22. 11. Attempts to Provide a Philosophical Overview 319
23. Part IV. What Kind of Expansionism Do We Want?
24. 12. Science and Values: Attempts at Historical Understanding 355
25. Notes 383
26. Bibliography 415
27. Index 441