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Science and the quest for meaning / Alfred I. Tauber

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: xi, 255 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781602582101 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1602582106 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501 TAUS 22
LOC classification:
  • Q175 .T2245 2009
Contents:
Introduction: Concerning scientific reason -- What is science? -- Nineteenth-century positivism -- The fall of positivism -- The science wars -- Science in its socio-political contexts -- Conclusion: The challenge of coherence
Review: "In this deeply thoughtful exploration, Alfred Tauber, a practicing scientist and highly regarded philosopher, eloquently traces the history of the philosophy of science, seeking in the end to place science within the humanistic context from which it originated. Avoiding the dogmatism that has defined both extremes in the recent "Science Wars" and presenting a conception of reason that lifts the discussion out of the interminable debates about objectivity and neutrality, Tauber offers a way of understanding science as an evolving relationship between facts and the values that govern their discovery and applications." "This timely text presents a centrist view wherein "truth" and "objectivity" function as working ideals and serve as pragmatic tools. If the humanization of science is to reach completion, it must reveal not only the meaning it receives from its social and cultural settings but also that which it lends to them."--BOOK JACKET
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Concerning scientific reason -- What is science? -- Nineteenth-century positivism -- The fall of positivism -- The science wars -- Science in its socio-political contexts -- Conclusion: The challenge of coherence

"In this deeply thoughtful exploration, Alfred Tauber, a practicing scientist and highly regarded philosopher, eloquently traces the history of the philosophy of science, seeking in the end to place science within the humanistic context from which it originated. Avoiding the dogmatism that has defined both extremes in the recent "Science Wars" and presenting a conception of reason that lifts the discussion out of the interminable debates about objectivity and neutrality, Tauber offers a way of understanding science as an evolving relationship between facts and the values that govern their discovery and applications." "This timely text presents a centrist view wherein "truth" and "objectivity" function as working ideals and serve as pragmatic tools. If the humanization of science is to reach completion, it must reveal not only the meaning it receives from its social and cultural settings but also that which it lends to them."--BOOK JACKET

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