Los desafíos de la ciencia

La complejidad de la vida social ha obligado a incorporar la planificación con uno de los instrumentos significativos en la toma de decisiones y en la implementación de cualquier tipo de acción en las esferas sociales y económicas . La planificación ha sido aceptada por todos los regímenes políticos. Así, ha sido considerada por las diversas experiencias socialistas, sustentadas en el marxismo como el instrumento prominente en la construcción del proyecto. Las diferentes orientaciones de Sociedad de Bienestar, asociadas a estilos capitalistas con una diversa participación del...

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current researches on science in the Muslim-Arab world. The papers deal with the religious and institutional context, mathematics, optics, astronomy, mechanics, natural philosophy, and pharamacology.The present volume also includes a general author index of the 21 volumes that make up the proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science.

Following the overthrow of the classical world picture by the findings of quantum mechanics, physicists have proposed a broad gamut of alternative worldviews. The Quantum Enigma begins with the major recognition that each of these suffers from a certain residual Cartesianism that has been smuggled in unconsciously. It turns out that the moment this hidden and problematic premise is discarded, quantum theory begins to make sense in a way that it never has before. As the author shows, it is now possible, for the first time, to integrate the findings of quantum physics into a worldview that...