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The Ideals of Joseph Ben-David - The Scientist's Role and Centers of Learning Revisited (Hardcover, New)
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The Ideals of Joseph Ben-David - The Scientist's Role and Centers of Learning Revisited (Hardcover, New)
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Joseph Ben-David died twenty-five years ago, in January 1986. An
eminent sociologist of science, and a co-founder of this
sub-discipline, he was only sixty-five years old. Few social
scientists are remembered after they die and can no longer parlay
their influence into the goods of this world for colleagues and
acquaintances. This was not Ben-David's fate. His work continues to
be taught and referred to by scholars spread far and wide (in terms
of both countries and disciplines). His students never forgot him,
his books were republished, and his essays appeared in new
collections. Ben-David's legacy includes ideas and ideals. Its
central tenet is the autonomy of science, its right--and duty--to
be value-free. Scholarship oriented to any goal other than the
accumulation of objective knowledge about empirical reality, for
him, was science no longer and did not have its authority. In this
light, the life of scholarship was one of moral dedication, with
nothing less than the fate of liberal democratic society depending
on it. And for science to thrive, the university, its home, had to
be the embodiment of the cardinal virtue of this society: the
virtue of civility. In the spirit of Ben-David, believing that
scholarly debate advances common good, and rational discourse wins
whichever way arguments in it are settled, this festschrift debates
such core issues as the nature of science, its changing definition
and position in Western society, the forms of organization optimal
for scientific creativity, and the ability of the research
university to foster scientific growth, while also performing its
educational role.
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