Science and Tradition

Author: A K RainaB N Patnaik/Monima ChadhaPublisher: Indian Institute of Advanced StudyYear: 2000Language: EnglishPages: 223ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185952736 DescriptionPresenting a panorama of thoughts and opinions on science, tradition and their inter-relationship, this volume contains contributions by a wide spectrum of scholars scientists, philosophers, theorists of language, social scientists and others.The aim is to develop a bridge between the world out there (science) and the world in here (tradition) the former built up of perpetual hypotheses and latter of perpetual facts. But then the hypotheses do change as do the facts: creative science and creative tradition are both live entities. Both have their respective cosmogonies: in science major events occur in real-time, in tradition they usually occur in the beginning or at the end. This closing millennium belongs to sciences, shaped in no mean measure by traditions. It is necessary to understand their interaction in order