Abstract

Originally delivered as lectures directed towards a largely lay audience, this series of ten papers deals with certain representative advances in modern science which most radically affect man's view of the world. To ensure a fair sample or cross section, three are roughly philosophical, three are concerned with the relation of science to public policy, three look to the future, with a final paper reporting experimental research together with brief speculation relative to there being life on other worlds. Since most of the papers are quite brief, they have had to choose between breadth of coverage and depth discussion. Philosophically the most interesting is Ernan McMullin's "Limits of Scientific Inquiry." The ten lectures were originally delivered at Georgetown University as part of the commemoration of its 175th anniversary.--R. D.