Modern Science And The Capriciousness Of Nature

Author : K. Rogers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625193
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Science and the Capriciousness of Nature written by K. Rogers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions the way that modern science and technology are considered able to liberate society from the erratic forces of nature. Modern science is implicated in a gamble on a technological society that will replace the natural world with a 'better' one. The author questions the rationality of this gamble and its implications for our lives.

Author : Errol E. Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415295338
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature, Mind, and Modern Science written by Errol E. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Cuozzo
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 161458186X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Christians Roamed the Earth written by Jack Cuozzo and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing to light the harmful effects of evolutionary thought on the Church, and society in general, this team of veteran creationists shows readers in shocking detail how Darwin started us down the slippery slope. With insightful commentary on a variety of topics - the Bible as “myth”; UFO’s and paranormal interest; New Age spirituality; studies in man’s origin; and evolution and pop culture; this book will raise issues rarely thought about in Christian circles. “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.” - Paul of Tarsus

Author : K. Rogers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023059414X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Participatory Democracy, Science and Technology written by K. Rogers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking insights from the philosophy of science and technology, theories of participatory democracy and Critical Theory, the author tackles and explores how democratic participation in scientific research and technological innovation could be possible, as a deliberative means of improving the rational basis for the development of modern society.

Author : H. Floris Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316404781
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Modern Science Explained written by H. Floris Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern science. In the 1600s thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Bacon and many others gave revolutionary new twists to traditional ideas and practices, culminating in the work of Isaac Newton half a century later. It was as if the world was being created anew. But why did this recreation begin in Europe rather than elsewhere? This book caps H. Floris Cohen's career-long effort to find answers to this classic question. Here he sets forth a rich but highly accessible account of what, against many odds, made it happen and why.

Author : Hans Radder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400741073
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Material Realization of Science written by Hans Radder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a conception of science as a multi-dimensional practice, which includes experimental action and production, conceptual-theoretical interpretation, and formal-mathematical work. On this basis, it addresses the topical issue of scientific realism and expounds a detailed, referentially realist account of the natural sciences. This account is shown to be compatible with the frequent occurrence of conceptual discontinuities in the historical development of the sciences. Referential realism exploits several fruitful ideas of Jürgen Habermas, especially his distinction between objectivity and truth; it builds on a in-depth analysis of scientific experiments, including their material realization; and it is developed through an extensive case study in the history and philosophy of quantum mechanics. The new postscript explains how the book relates to several important issues in recent philosophy of science and science studies. “I highly recommend this book. Radder is probably the first philosopher of science to make productive epistemological use of the notion of ‘experimental system’. The postscript is most valuable since it connects his work not only to the topical debates in philosophy of science, but also to history of science and science studies.” Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin About the first edition: “The debate on realism has recently become rather stale by repetition, but Radder introduces original insights and has written a lively and well-argued contribution to it. The book is to be recommended also as a clear introduction to the complex of relevant issues.” Mary Hesse, University of Cambridge “Radder presents an ingenious approach to the issue of scientific realism and conceptual discontinuity. I believe his idea that conceptual discontinuity presupposes other types of continuity is extremely important.” Mark Rowlands, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Hans Radder is professor of philosophy of science and technology at VU University Amsterdam. He is the author of In and About the World and The World Observed/The World Conceived. He edited The Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation and The Commodification of Academic Research: Science and the Modern University, and is coeditor of Science Transformed? Debating Claims of an Epochal Break.

Author : Leemon McHenry
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110319438
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom written by Leemon McHenry and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Maxwell's provocative and highly-original philosophy of science urges a revolution in academic inquiry affecting all branches of learning, so that the single-minded pursuit of knowledge is replaced with the aim of helping people realize what is of value in life and make progress toward a more civilized world. This volume of essays from an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars engages Maxwell in critical evaluation and celebrates his contribution to philosophy spanning forty years. Several of the contributors, like Maxwell, took their inspiration from Sir Karl Popper's philosophy of science and were connected to the department he created at the London School of Economics. In the introductory chapter, Maxwell provides an overview of his thought and then defends his views against objections in a concluding essay.

Author : Anastasia Marinopoulou
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526105381
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical theory and epistemology written by Anastasia Marinopoulou and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focusing on the first and second generations of critical theorists and Luhmann’s systems theory, the book examines how each approaches epistemology. It opens by looking at twentieth-century epistemology, particularly the concept of lifeworld (Lebenswelt). It then moves on to discuss structuralism, poststructuralism, critical realism, the epistemological problematics of Foucault’s writings and the dialectics of systems theory. The aim is to explore whether the focal point for epistemology and the sciences remain that social and political interests actually form a concrete point of concern for the sciences as well.

Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062505955
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Nature written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1990-01-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.

Author : Karl Alan Rogers Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440800308
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debunking Glenn Beck written by Karl Alan Rogers Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the example of Glenn Beck as a media pundit and propagandist, this timely and provocative book shows how mainstream media fails in its duty—and explains what the American people can do about it. Debunking Glenn Beck: How to Save America from Media Pundits and Propagandists was written in response to Beck's Arguing with Idiots. Its most immediate concern is with exploring the agenda behind Beck's arguments and exposing the flaws in his reasoning. But this book's real mission is something much broader. Using Beck as an example, author Karl Rogers also shows why media reform is so vital to the future of democracy. To make that case, Dr. Rogers offers a detailed discussion of the ideas and ideology at work in Beck's arguments, revealing how the well-known conservative pundit has distorted and twisted facts to misrepresent American history, the meaning of progressivism, and even the U.S. Constitution. The book examines topics ranging from the Second Amendment to health care, education, housing, the Supreme Court, unions, democracy, and government. It concludes by explaining how Americans can revitalize the Constitution as a living document and, by doing so, revitalize public debate and democracy itself.