Special Issue | Winter 2017
Winter 2017
A More Natural Science
Encountering nature beyond the limits of determinism, mechanism, and reduction
Encountering nature beyond the limits of determinism, mechanism, and reduction
Modern science is unwittingly echoing Aristotle — and still has much to learn from him.
The sage of physics takes on politics and philosophy — and dreams of science’s last day
On the ambiguous legacy of Werner Heisenberg, quantum genius and would-be inventor of the Nazi A-bomb
Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?
A debate on the nature of truth turns into a squabble over whether the father of the “paradigm shift” threw an ashtray at Errol Morris’s head.
New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?
How a cerebral hedonist became a scientific hero
James D. Watson’s unfinished quest to master genetic destiny