Table of Contents

Historical and Philosophical Aspects of the Unity of Physics: Scientific Progress by Unification.- The Emergence of Theoretical Physics in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.- Physics and Human Thought.- Physics as a Cultural Science.- Time Flow.- Time’s Arrow.- Between Pure and Applied Mathematics.- Concepts of Causality in Pre-Socratic Philosophy.- The Rationality of Reductionism.- The Risk of Heuristics.- Irreversibility and Self-Organization.- Structural Basis of Serine Protease Action: The Fourth Dimension.- Can the Concept of Evolution Tell Us Who We Are?.- Changes of Paradigms in Biology and Medicine.- The Relationship Between Medicine and Natural Sciences During the Twentieth Century Aspects of the Theory of Science.- The Artificial Intelligence Approach to Modelling Medical Reasoning.- The Role of Prediction in Modern Science — The Example of Psychiatry.- From Brunelleschi to Leonardo.- Antonio Scarpa, Luigi Porta, Camillo Golgi: The Development of Medical Thought at Pavia University.- The Social Uses of Past Science: Celebrating Volta in Fascist Italy.