Foreword by Roger Penrose 引言 1
NATURE AND THE GREEKS 自然与希腊 7
Ⅰ The motives for returning to ancient thought 11
Ⅱ The competition,reason v.senses 30
Ⅲ The Pythagoreans 41
Ⅳ The Ionian Enlightenment 60
Ⅴ The religion of Xenophanes.Heraclitus of Ephesus 76
Ⅵ The Atomists 82
Ⅶ What are the special features? 97
Bibliography 106
SCIENCE AND HUMANISM 科学与人文 109
Preface 111
The spiritual bearing of science on life 113
The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import 121
A radical change in our ideas of matter Form,not substance,the 124
fundamental concept 131
The nature of our'models' 135
Continuous description and causality 140
The intricacy of the continuum 144
The makeshift of wave mechanics The alleged break-down of the 154
barrier between subject and object Atoms or quanta-the counter-spell of old standing,to escape the 162
intricacy of the continuum Would physical indeterminacy 169
give free will a chance?The bar to prediction,according 175
to Niels Bohr 182
Literature 186
后记：哲学是科学的后花园 189