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The Idea of Progress
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Notes on Contributors John D. Barrow is Professor of Astronomy at the Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, UK and at present holds a PPARC Senior Research Fellowship. His research interests are in the areas of cosmology, particle astrophysics, galaxy forma-tion and gravitation physics. He is the author of more than 200 research papers in these subject areas and also of a number of books which explain modern scientific developments in a wider historical and philosophical context. These include, The Left Hand of Creation (1983 and 1994), L'Homme et le Cos-mos (1984), The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (1986), The World within the World (1988), Theories of Everything (1991), Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking and Being (1992), Perche il mondo e matematico (1992), The Origin of the Universe (1994), and The Artful Universe (1995). Jean Blondel was born in Toulon (France) in 1929. He gradu-ated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris in 1953 and from St. Antony's College (Oxford) where he stayed from 1953 to 1955. He was a lecturer at Keele University from 1958 to 1963, an ACLS fellow at Yale in 1963-4, and became Profes-sor of Government at the University of Essex in 1964. He started the European Consortium for Political Research in 1969 and directed it for ten years. Leaving Essex in 1984, he was appointed scholar of the Russell Sage Foundation in New York in 1984 before becoming professor of political science at the European University Institute in Florence in 1985. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of the

Notes on Contributors John D. Barrow is Professor of Astronomy at the Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, UK and at present holds a PPARC Senior Research Fellowship. His research interests are in the areas of cosmology, particle astrophysics, galaxy forma-tion and gravitation physics. He is the author of more than 200 research papers in these subject areas and also of a number of books which explain modern scientific developments in a wider historical and philosophical context. These include, The Left Hand of Creation (1983 and 1994), L'Homme et le Cos-mos (1984), The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (1986), The World within the World (1988), Theories of Everything (1991), Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking and Being (1992), Perche il mondo e matematico (1992), The Origin of the Universe (1994), and The Artful Universe (1995). Jean Blondel was born in Toulon (France) in 1929. He gradu-ated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris in 1953 and from St. Antony's College (Oxford) where he stayed from 1953 to 1955. He was a lecturer at Keele University from 1958 to 1963, an ACLS fellow at Yale in 1963-4, and became Profes-sor of Government at the University of Essex in 1964. He started the European Consortium for Political Research in 1969 and directed it for ten years. Leaving Essex in 1984, he was appointed scholar of the Russell Sage Foundation in New York in 1984 before becoming professor of political science at the European University Institute in Florence in 1985. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of the

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction ix
  4. Progress: Fact and Fiction 1
  5. Impact and Limits of the Idea of Progress in Antiquity 19
  6. Philosophical Commitments and Scientific Progress 47
  7. The Chinese “Cyclic” View of History vs. Japanese “Progress” 65
  8. Political Progress: Reality or Illusion? 77
  9. Progress and the Future 103
  10. Progress and Development in Music History 121
  11. Progress in Philosophy 139
  12. Time in the Universe 155
  13. Progress in Biological Evolution 175
  14. The Idea of Progress in Evolutionary Biology: Philosophical Considerations 201
  15. The Idea of Progress in Human Health 219
  16. Notes on Contributors 231
  17. Index 237
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Introduction ix
  4. Progress: Fact and Fiction 1
  5. Impact and Limits of the Idea of Progress in Antiquity 19
  6. Philosophical Commitments and Scientific Progress 47
  7. The Chinese “Cyclic” View of History vs. Japanese “Progress” 65
  8. Political Progress: Reality or Illusion? 77
  9. Progress and the Future 103
  10. Progress and Development in Music History 121
  11. Progress in Philosophy 139
  12. Time in the Universe 155
  13. Progress in Biological Evolution 175
  14. The Idea of Progress in Evolutionary Biology: Philosophical Considerations 201
  15. The Idea of Progress in Human Health 219
  16. Notes on Contributors 231
  17. Index 237
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