Hi,
I have a friend who is an ardent Catholic, who admits 'not having a skeptical bone in his body' and who is absolutely smitten with classical philosophy, especially (of course) Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas. Thomism is practically his entire worldview, and anything that came after the Scholastics is of apparently no interest to him. To him, science is just a branch of philosophy, an inconvenient distraction from his Thomist ideology. This is a guy who thinks GK Chesterton has pretty much nailed our understanding of the world.
What I want is to introduce him to a proper and, importantly, up-to-date understanding of science: as a methodology, a practice and as a body of knowledge. He's an avid book reader so I'm hoping there is a good book out there that can give him a clear, firm grasp of what science is, what it does and why, and where we're at currently (give or take a few years). The goal here isn't to refute his philosophy (or love of the subject in general) but to broaden his understanding and to introduce him in a thorough way to what science is and has achieved. He really is wildly ignorant and, worse, suspicious of science but he's not intrinsically 'anti-science' as such.
Can anyone give a good recommendation? Something like Asimov's New Guide To Science, but for the 21st century, perhaps? And perhaps something on the philosophy of science, because I know he'll unavoidably want to go there. I have no idea where to start
Any help will be apprecited.
I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.
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