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John Horgan (born 1953) is an American science journalist best known for his 1996 book The End of Science. He has written for many publications, including National Geographic, Scientific American, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and IEEE Spectrum. His awards include two Science Journalism Awards from the American Association for the ...
According to John Horgan, science journalist writing for The Wall Street Journal, Hawking, in his book, prefers string theory as a way of explaining the "theory of everything" (which Hawking predicts to be solved by "the end of this century") and, based on quantum mechanics, considers empty space as filled with virtual particles, "popping into ...
Flanagan, Owen (1991), The Science of the Mind, 2ed MIT Press, Cambridge. Horgan, John (1996), The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age, Addison-Wesley; has a discussion of mysterianism (pp 177–180). Horgan, John (1999), The Undiscovered Mind, Phoenix, ISBN 0-7538-1098-0.
Science journalist John Horgan has expressed this view in the book The End of Science. He wrote that a certain pervasive model within holistic science, self-organized criticality , for example, "is not really a theory at all.
Horgan, John: Scientific skepticism: The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age: 0553061747: Broadway Books: Reprint 1997 Hawking, Stephen: Scientific skepticism: A Brief History of Time: 0553380168: Bantam Books: Paperback 1988 Boening, Dean W. Scientific skepticism: The Extinct Cognitive Christian ...
Science writer John Horgan interviewed and profiled James Austin, Terence McKenna, Michael Persinger, Christian Rätsch, Huston Smith, Ken Wilber, Alexander Shulgin and others for Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality, [14] his 2003 study of “the scientific quest to explain the transcendent.” [15]
John Horgan's End of science: facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the scientific age. [6] Tavel Morton's Contemporary physics and the limits of knowledge. [7] Christopher Cherniak's Limits for knowledge. [8] Ignoramus et ignorabimus, a Latin maxim meaning "we do not know and will not know", popularized by Emil du Bois-Reymond.
In 1995-1997 publications, Scientific American journalist John Horgan "ridiculed" the movement as being the fourth C among the "failed fads" of "complexity, chaos, catastrophe, and cybernetics". [5] In 1997, Horgan wrote that the approach had "created some potent metaphors: the butterfly effect , fractals , artificial life , the edge of chaos ...