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Sixteen essays reprinted from a variety of sources discuss the pros and cons of Western scientific thought and practice. Acknowledging that traditional scientific methods can be dehumanizing, reductionist, and imperialistic, the anthology also considers Western science's strengths and the underlying assumptions and motivations behind it. Arrangement is in five parts: science and its worldview, the problem of scientific realism, the nature of scientific change, the boundaries of science, and science and values. Contributors include Martin Heidegger, Thomas Kuhn, Hilary Putnam, Evelyn Fox Keller and Max Weber. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Sixteen essays reprinted from a variety of sources discuss the pros and cons of Western scientific thought and practice. Acknowledging that traditional scientif
Science and the Quest for Reality is an interdisciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociolo
From the vantage point of eighty years, a highly regarded scientist and theologian surveys the full spectrum of critical issues between science and theologyJohn
Questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical elegance have inspired, and have sometimes misled, scien
In both science and philosophy, the twentieth century saw a radical breakdown of certainty in the human worldview, as quantum uncertainty and linguistic ambigui
