Secular sermons

essays on science and philosophy

de Alan Musgrave

"Can we decide what to believe? Why do scientists do experiments and what can their experiments show? Is evolution a scientific theory? Such apparently simple questions are investigated by Musgrave in order to interrogate the worldviews we inhabit - and their consequences. He brings to these questions an expansive historical knowledge, provoking his readers to enter the now-discredited belief-systems of earlier ages in order to compare these with our own."--Jacket.