Science And Myth

Author : Sergio Sismondo
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427330
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science without Myth written by Sergio Sismondo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This philosophical introduction to and discussion of social and political studies of science argues that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.

Author : Wolfgang Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597310987
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Myth written by Wolfgang Smith and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Science and Myth the author shows, in the first place, that science too has its mythology, unrecognized and unacknowledged though the fact be. These scientistic myths, however, turn out to constitute what he terms anti-myths: "a kind that would banish all others, and in so doing, undermine not only religion and morality, but indeed all culture in its higher modes." What invalidates the contemporary "scientific" world-view and renders it "mythical" in the pejorative sense, he goes on to contend, proves finally to be the underlying hypothesis that human perception terminates, not in an external object, but in a subjective phantasm. Not only does the author maintain cogently that visual perception, in particular, does penetrate to the external world, but basing himself on traditional sources-fromVedic to Biblical-he shows that sight as such opens in principle to a veritable gnosis: a "seeing of the Real."

Author : Gerald Matthews
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262632966
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotional Intelligence written by Gerald Matthews and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, scientific examination of the popular psychological construct of emotional intelligence.

Author : Mehrdad M. Zarandi
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780941532471
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and the Myth of Progress written by Mehrdad M. Zarandi and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the fall / Frithjof Schuon -- Sacred and profane science / René Guénon -- Traditional cosmology and the modern world / Titus Burckhardt -- Religion and science / Lord Northbourne -- Contemporary man, between the rim and the axis / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Christianity and the religious thought of C.G. Jung / Philip Sherrard - - On earth as it is in heaven / James S. Cutsinger -- The nature and extent of criticism of evolutionary theory / Osman Bakar -- Knowledge and knowledge / D.M. Matheson -- Knowledge and its counterfeits / Gai Eaton -- Ignorance / Wendell Berry -- The plague of scientistic belief / Wolfgang Smith -- Scientism: the bedrock of the modern worldview / Huston Smith -- Life as non-historical reality / Giuseppe Sermonti -- Man, creation and the fossil record / Michael Robert Negus -- The act of creation: bridging transcendence and immanence / William A. Dembski.

Author : Jordanka Zlatanova
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 100004730X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What is Science? written by Jordanka Zlatanova and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a multitude of ways, science affects the life of almost every person on earth. From medicine and nutrition to communication and transportation, the products of scientific research have changed human life. These changes have mostly taken place in the last two centuries, so rapidly that the average person is unable to keep informed. A consequence of this "information gap" has been the increasing suspicion of science and scientists. The lack of true understanding of science, especially of "fundamental" research, motivates this effort to narrow this gap by explaining scientific endeavor and the data-driven worldviews of scientists. Key Features Fills an existing void in the understanding of science among the general population Is written in a nontechnical language to facilitate understanding Covers a wide range of science-related subjects: The value of "basic research" How scientists work by sharing results and ideas How science is funded by governments and private entities Addresses the possible dangers of research and how society deals with such risks Expresses the viewpoint of an author with extensive experience working in laboratories all over the world

Author : Mary Midgley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134841167
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science as Salvation written by Mary Midgley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science.

Author : Ronald L. Numbers
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967984
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science written by Ronald L. Numbers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A falling apple inspired the law of gravity—or so the story goes. Is it true? Perhaps not. But why do such stories endure as explanations of how science happens? Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science brushes away popular misconceptions to provide a clearer picture of scientific breakthroughs from ancient times to the present.

Author : Jonathan Wells
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 159698533X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icons of Evolution written by Jonathan Wells and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you were taught about evolution is wrong.

Author : José G. Perillán
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198864965
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Between Myth and History written by José G. Perillán and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Between Myth and History explores scientific storytelling and its implications on the teaching, practice, and public perception of science. In communicating their science, scientists tend to use historical narratives for important rhetorical purposes. This text explores the implications of doing this.

Author : Tito Vignoli
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Science written by Tito Vignoli and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: