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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: island of knowledge
    sub title: the limits of science and the search for meaning
  name:
    name part: Gleiser, Marcelo.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiv, 335 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: How much can we know about the world? In this book, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing, he reaches a provocative conclusion: science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know. Gleiser shows that by abandoning the dualistic model that divides reality into the known and the unknown, we can embark on a third way based on the acceptance of our limitations. Only then, he argues, will we be truly able to experience freedom; for to be free in an age of science we cannot turn science into a god. Gleiser ultimately offers an uplifting exploration of humanity's longing to conquer the unknown, and of science's power to transform and inspire.
  note: Marcelo Gleiser.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Meaning (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
  subject:
    topic: Meaning (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: Q175.32.M43 G57 2014eb
  classification: 501
  identifier: 9780465080731 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0465080731 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: E6442EB2-23AE-4CDA-8B7A-EDB17A6872FD OverDrive, Inc.
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: MHW
    record creation date: 140515
    record change date: 20250816213149.9
    record identifier: in00003445383
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng