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Defending Science-Within Reason - Between Scientism and Cynicism (Hardcover, New)
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Defending Science-Within Reason - Between Scientism and Cynicism (Hardcover, New)
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Sweeping in scope, penetrating in analysis, and generously
illustrated with examples from the history of science, this new and
original approach to familiar questions about scientific evidence
and method tackles vital questions about science and its place in
society. Avoiding the twin pitfalls of scientism and cynicism,
noted philosopher Susan Haack argues that, fallible and flawed as
they are, the natural sciences have been among the most successful
of human enterprises-valuable not only for the vast, interlocking
body of knowledge they have discovered, and not only for the
technological advances that have improved our lives, but as a
manifestation of the human talent for inquiry at its imperfect but
sometimes remarkable best. This wide-ranging, trenchant, and
illuminating book explores the complexities of scientific evidence,
and the multifarious ways in which the sciences have refined and
amplified the methods of everyday empirical inquiry; articulates
the ways in which the social sciences are like the natural
sciences, and the ways in which they are different; disentangles
the confusions of radical rhetoricians and cynical sociologists of
science; exposes the evasions of apologists for religious
resistance to scientific advances; weighs the benefits and the
dangers of technology; tracks the efforts of the legal system to
make the best use of scientific testimony; and tackles predictions
of the eventual culmination, or annihilation, of the scientific
enterprise. Writing with verve and wry humor, in a witty, direct,
and accessible style, Haack takes readers beyond the "Science Wars"
to a balanced understanding of the value, and the limitations, of
the scientific enterprise.
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