Are universes thicker than blackberries? : discourses on Gödel, magic hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and other mathematical and pseudoscientific topics
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xi, 288 p. : 21 cm
Reprint. Originally published: c2003
Includes bibliographical references and index
Science. Multiverses and blackberries -- Skeptical look at Karl Popper -- Rudolf Carnap, philosopher of science -- Some thoughts about induction -- Can time go backward? -- Mathematics. Against the odds (a story) -- Fun with Mobius bands -- Is mathematics "out there"? -- Ian Stewart's Flatterland -- Kurt Godel's amazing discovery -- New results on magic hexagrams -- Religion. The strange case of Garry Wills -- Mad messiahs -- Oahspe -- Vagueness of Krishnamurti -- Literature. Chesterton's The man who was Thursday -- Ernest Hemingway and Jane -- Three parodies of famous poems -- Edgar Wallace and The green archer -- Afterword to The green archer -- Tin woodman of Oz -- Moonshine. Little Red Riding Hood -- Brutality of Dr. Bettelheim -- Facilitated communication : a cruel farce -- Distant healing and Elisabeth Targ -- Therapeutic touch -- Primal scream therapy -- Eyeless vision -- Magic and Psi -- How Mrs. Piper bamboozled William James -- "Dr." Henry Slade, American medium
Reprint. Originally published: c2003
Includes bibliographical references and index
Science. Multiverses and blackberries -- Skeptical look at Karl Popper -- Rudolf Carnap, philosopher of science -- Some thoughts about induction -- Can time go backward? -- Mathematics. Against the odds (a story) -- Fun with Mobius bands -- Is mathematics "out there"? -- Ian Stewart's Flatterland -- Kurt Godel's amazing discovery -- New results on magic hexagrams -- Religion. The strange case of Garry Wills -- Mad messiahs -- Oahspe -- Vagueness of Krishnamurti -- Literature. Chesterton's The man who was Thursday -- Ernest Hemingway and Jane -- Three parodies of famous poems -- Edgar Wallace and The green archer -- Afterword to The green archer -- Tin woodman of Oz -- Moonshine. Little Red Riding Hood -- Brutality of Dr. Bettelheim -- Facilitated communication : a cruel farce -- Distant healing and Elisabeth Targ -- Therapeutic touch -- Primal scream therapy -- Eyeless vision -- Magic and Psi -- How Mrs. Piper bamboozled William James -- "Dr." Henry Slade, American medium
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obscured leaf 3, back cover.
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