Volume 42, Number 15 · October 5, 1995
Reductionism Redux
By Steven Weinberg
Nature's Imagination: The Frontiers of Scientific Vision
edited by John Cornwell, Introduction by Freeman Dyson
Oxford University Press, 212 pp., $23.00
It used to be traditional for college courses on the history of philosophy to begin around 600 BC with Thales of Miletus. According to later writers, Thales taught that everything is made of water. Learning about Thales, undergraduates had the healthy experience of starting their study of philosophy with a doctrine that they knew to be false.
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