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Science Unlimited? - The Challenges of Scientism (Paperback)
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Science Unlimited? - The Challenges of Scientism (Paperback)
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All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science
overstepping its proper limits about its brazenness, arrogance, and
intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientism:
the privileging of science over all other ways of knowing. Science,
they warn, cannot do or explain everything, no matter what some
enthusiasts believe. In Science Unlimited?, noted philosophers of
science Maarten Boudry and Massimo Pigliucci gather a diverse group
of scientists, science communicators, and philosophers of science
to explore the limits of science and this alleged threat of
scientism. In this wide-ranging collection, contributors ask
whether the term scientism in fact (or in belief) captures an
interesting and important intellectual stance, and whether it is
something that should alarm us. Is scientism a well-developed
position about the superiority of science over all other modes of
human inquiry? Or is it more a form of excessive confidence, an
uncritical attitude of glowing admiration? What, if any, are its
dangers? Are fears that science will marginalize the humanities and
eradicate the human subject that it will explain away emotion, free
will, consciousness, and the mystery of existence justified? Does
science need to be reined in before it drives out all other
disciplines and ways of knowing? Both rigorous and balanced,
Science Unlimited? interrogates our use of a term that is now all
but ubiquitous in a wide variety of contexts and debates. Bringing
together scientists and philosophers, both friends and foes of
scientism, it is a conversation long overdue.
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