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Science and Anti-Science (Paperback, New Ed)
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Science and Anti-Science (Paperback, New Ed)
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What is good science? What goal--if any--is the proper end of
scientific activity? Is there a legitimating authority that
scientists mayclaim? Howserious athreat are the anti-science
movements? These questions have long been debated but, as Gerald
Holton points out, every era must offer its own responses. This
book examines these questions not in the abstract but shows their
historic roots and the answers emerging from the scientific and
political controversies of this century. Employing the case-study
method and the concept of scientific thematathat he has pioneered,
Holton displays the broad scope of his insight into the workings of
science: from the influence of Ernst Mach on twentiethcentury
physicists, biologists, psychologists, and other thinkers to the
rhetorical strategies used in the work of Albert Einstein, Niels
Bohr, and others; from the bickering between Thomas Jefferson and
the U.S. Congress over the proper form of federal sponsorship of
scientific research to philosophical debates since Oswald Spengier
over whether our scientific knowledge will ever be "complete." In a
masterful final chapter, Holton scrutinizes the "anti-science
phenomenon," the increasingly common opposition to science as
practiced today. He approaches this contentious issue by examining
the world views and political ambitions of the proponents of
science as well as those of its opponents-the critics of
"establishment science" (including even those who fear that science
threatens to overwhelm the individual in the postmodern world) and
the adherents of "alternative science" (Creationists, New Age
"healers," astrologers). Through it all runs the thread of the
author's deep historical knowledge and his humanistic understanding
of science in modern culture. Science and Anti-Science will be of
great interest not only to scientists and scholars in the field of
science studies but also to educators, policymalcers, and all those
who wish to gain a fuller understanding of challenges to and doubts
about the role of science in our lives today.
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