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Knowledge and ignorance essays on lights and shadows
Title:
Knowledge and ignorance essays on lights and shadows
Author:
Dovring, Folke.
ISBN:
9781567507485
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 167 p.)
Contents:
Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; One Beyond Science Limits and Problems; Two Lighted Room The Ways We See Things; Three Just Inside The Ways We Know Things; Four Beyond Reach Things We May Never Know; Five Design The Ways Things Are Made; Six Process The Ways Things Work; Seven Logos The Ways Things Must Be; Eight Creation The Ways Our World Was Made; Nine History Limits of Science in Human Affairs; Ten What For Or What Price Knowledge; References; Index;
Abstract:
The author explores the limits of science as causes of ignorance. Some topics in the essays are problems with our ways of "knowing" and the impact of emotion on objectivity. The lines of thought are applied to evolution as creation and history, and to questions of truth and faith.
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