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On Science - Concepts, Cultures and Limits (Hardcover)
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On Science - Concepts, Cultures and Limits (Hardcover)
Series: Science and Technology Studies
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On Science: Concepts, Cultures, and Limits explores science and its
relationship with religion, philosophy, ethics, mathematics, and
with socio-economic changes. The book gives an overview of the
metaphysical contexts in which science emerged and the particular
forms science has taken in history. It examines the preoccupation
of ancient cultures with the validity of interpretations of natural
phenomena, the role of the study of materials in the substantiation
of the conceptual world, and the establishment of modern science on
both experimentation and mathematics. This theoretical discussion
is illustrated by a host of examples from physics to the life
sciences, which highlight how current concepts developed over the
centuries, or even millennia. The volume underscores some of the
weaknesses inherent in a scientific approach, and how in the modern
context of a wealth-driven technological orientation, these have
been conducive to a gradual distortion of science into its exact
opposite, a dogmatic faith. It further discusses the nature of
scientific education in the world, and how conditions can be
created to ensure pioneering creativity and to preserve scientific
rigor. The book will be of great interest to scholars, teachers and
researchers of science, the metaphysics and philosophy of science,
mathematics, science and technology studies, epistemology, ethics,
history and sociology. It will also be useful for general readers
who are interested in the history of scientific discoveries and
ideas as well as in the issues surrounding science today, in
particular its relations with many urgent problems.
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