The Search for Knowledge and Understanding
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Search for Knowledge and Understanding
By (Author) Professor Maxwell R. Bennett
University of Sydney
University of Sydney
28th May 2019
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
B
Physical Properties
Paperback
333
Width 176mm, Height 250mm, Spine 20mm
250g
Description
For nearly a millennium, universities have searched for knowledge, understanding and truth. Internationally renowned neuroscientist, Professor Maxwell Bennett, evaluates the work of 20 of the greatest scholars in the University of Sydney's history and shows how this university's search has benefitted society in manifold ways.
The Search for Knowledge and Understandingdemonstrates an interdisciplinary approach, as Bennett crafts short but insightful biographies of some of the most significant scholars that have worked at Australia's oldest university over the past half century, in medicine, the life sciences, the physical sciences and the humanities and social sciences.
Bennet provides a striking account of how this particular scholarly community has flourished by nurturing scholars and allowing them with the intellectual freedom to pursue their passions. The book clarifies the notion of understanding as it holds in different disciplines and depicts the benefit the world of scholarship can have on the wider community.
Author Bio
Max Bennett AO is university chair and professor of neuroscience at the University of Sydney. He has carried out pioneering research on synapses, and on the history and philosophy of the neurosciences.
