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Predicting the Future
Edited by Leo Howe and Alan Wain
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. v+195.
ISBN: 0521-41323-0 hardback.
Available from CUP online. Discounted copies, available to Darwin College members only, may be
ordered from the Master's Secretary.
This volume contains revised versions of the lectures given in
1991 in the sixth annual series of Darwin College Lectures.
It has been translated into Italian as Il Futuro, published
by Edizione Dedalo, Bari.
- Introduction: Predicting the future
- Leo Howe
Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- 1 The future of the universe
- Stephen Hawking
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
- 2 Chaos
- Ian Stewart
Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick
- 3 Comets and the world's end
- Simon Schaffer
Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of
Cambridge
- 4 Predicting the economy
- Frank Hahn
Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge
- 5 The medical frontier
- Ian Kennedy
Professor of Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London
- 6 Divine providence in late antiquity
- Averil Cameron
Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, King's College
London
- 7 Buddhist prediction: how open is the future?
- Richard Gombrich
Boden Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oxford
- 8 The last judgement
- Don Cupitt
Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion, University of
Cambridge
- Index
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