Progress in Science and its Social Conditions. Nobel Symposium 58 Held at Lidingö, Sweden, 15–19 August 1983

Content: 
Other Titles of Interest, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Introduction, Pages vii-viii, TORD GANELIUS
The Seventeenth-Century Outlook on Science, Pages 3-4, PETER MEDAWAR
Science, Technology, Progress and the Break-through: China as a Case Study in Human History, Pages 5-22, JOSEPH NEEDHAM
Progress of Science in Africa — in Tradition, Culture and Religion, Pages 23-32, LETITIA E. OBENG
The Growth of Science: Romantic and Technocratic Images, Pages 33-47, AANT ELZINGA
Magic, Science and Institutionalization in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Pages 51-59, KARIN JOHANNISSON
Science, Scientism and Anti-Scientism, Pages 61-69, JOSEPH BEN-DAVID
Creative Thinking in Science and in Human Relations, Pages 71-80, PIET HEIN
Promotion of Excellence or Mediocrity, Pages 81-89, ROSALYN S. YALOW
Getting to Know Everything About Nothing, Pages 93-109, J.M. ZIMAN
Planning, Administration and Organization of Science as a Means for Initiation, Enhancement and Development of Individual and Social Scientific Curiosity and Creativity (with special respect to life sciences), Pages 111-130, IVAN MÁLEK
The Individual as a Human Resource for Scientific Progress, Pages 131-137, CARL GUSTAFÉN
Educational Aspects and Recruitment of Scientists in Small Less Developed Countries, Pages 139-145, HORÁCIO MENANO
Modern Forms of Education in the Recruitment and Selection of Scientists (questions of methodology and organization), Pages 147-158, YANKO YANCHEV
Understanding the Processes of Science: The Psychology of Scientific Discovery, Pages 159-170, HERBERT A. SIMON
Contagious Knowledge: Contagion as a Quality Criterion for Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science, Pages 171-182, ERNST U. VON WEIZSÄCKER
The Meaning of Innovation at Sony, Pages 183-190, MASARU IBUKA
Cooperation and Conflicts in Industry-University Relations, Pages 191-199, STIG B. HAGSTRÖM
The Unique and the Commonplace in the Creations of Art and Science, Pages 203-214, GUNTHER S. STENT
Excellence and Creativity in Science, Pages 215-221, ROLF LUFT, HANS LÖW
Progress and Reality in the Arts and in the Sciences, Pages 223-234, PAUL K. FEYERABEND
“Progress” In Science?, Pages 235-239, GÖRAN HERMERÉN
List of Participants, Organizers and Observers, Pages 241-243
Index, Pages 245-248