What ought to be the aims of science? How can science best serve
humanity? What would an ideal science be like, a science that is
sensitively and humanely responsive to the needs, problems and
aspirations of people? How ought the institutional enterprise of
science to be related to the rest of society? What ought to be the
relationship between science and art, thought and feeling, reason
and desire, mind and heart? Should the social sciences model
themselves on the natural sciences: or ought they to take a
different form if they are to serve the interests of humanity
objectively, sensitively and rigorously? Might it be possible to
get into human life, into art, education, politics, industry,
international affairs, and other domains of human activity, the
same kind of progressive success that is found so strikingly, on
the intellectual level, within science? These are some of the
questions tackled by What's Wrong With Science? The author argues
that a range of intellectual, technological, social, moral,
educational and cultural problems associated with modern science
are by-products of the widespread attempt to make science conform
to a seriously inadequate ideal for science, an inadequate, widely
upheld philosophy of science. The author puts forward and defends a
new ideal for science, one which puts people, human life, at the
centre of intellectual concern. Such a "person centred" science
would be both more humanly desirable, and more rigorous and
objective, than science as we have it today. The book is, however,
no abstruse treatise on the philosophy of science. Most of it takes
the form of a passionate debate between a Scientist and a
Philosopher, a debate that is by turns humorous, ironical, bitter,
dramatically explosive. Even as the argument explores the
relationship between thought and feeling, reason and desire, the
two main protagonists find it necessary to examine their own
feelings and motivations. The book is a delight to read and can be
understood by anyone. It should have a wide appeal. It will be of
interest to any scientist concerned about the intellectual and
moral integrity of modern science - whether working in a physical,
biological or social science. It will be of interest to
educationalists, science teachers, students, 6th form pupils,
historians, sociologists and philosophers of science, and indeed to
anyone concerned about the place and role of science and technology
in the modern world.
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