The proper ambition of science
Title:
The proper ambition of science
Author:
Stone, M. W. F. (Martin William Francis), 1965-
ISBN:
9780203272589
9780203446263
9780415186179
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 231 p.)
Series:
London studies in the history of philosophy ; v. 2
London studies in the history of philosophy ; v. 2.
Contents:
Science, philosophy and human life in the Ancient World / R.W. Sharples -- Theology, philosophy and 'science' in the thirteenth century : the case of Albert the Great / M.W.F. Stone -- The seventeenth century and the reconstruction of knowledge / G.A.J. Rogers -- The end of hierarchy : physics and metaphysics in the scientific revolution / J.R. Milton -- Science in the service of life : Nietzsche's objectivism / Aaron Ridley -- Pragmatism : commonsense and the limits of science / Christopher Hookway -- Husserl and the crisis of the European sciences / Dermot Morgan -- Some scientism, some historicism, some critics : Hayek's and Popper's critiques revisited / Thomas E. Uebel -- The rise of physicalism / David Papineau -- Against the completability of science / Nancy Cartwright.
Abstract:
What is the proper relation between the scientific world view and other aspects of human knowledge and experience? Nine case studies show how this question has been addressed throughout the ages.
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