Where Is Science Going?
by Max Planck
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1932
- Form
- Essay
- Language
- German
- Length
- Short · 220 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendWhere Is Science Going?, translated by James MurphyW. W. Norton, 1932The original English collection, with a prologue by Einstein and an interview with Planck by the translator.
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A collection of Planck's popular lectures assembled for English readers by James Murphy, with a prologue by Einstein. The essays discuss the aims of physical science, whether physics is in crisis, the universe seen from the standpoint of modern physics, the principle of causality in nature, and the problem of free will. Planck defends a realist view of science against positivism and argues that strict causality holds in nature while the freedom of the will remains a genuine question for the acting person.
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