Science And The Myth Of Progress

Author : Mehrdad M. Zarandi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788186569634
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science And The Myth Of Progress written by Mehrdad M. Zarandi and published by . This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the knowledge provided by modern science satisfy our needto know the most profound nature of reality and of humanity?aThe great advantage of this book is that it puts together texts ofauthors whose lucidity about modern science goes far beyond emotionalreaction and moralist subjectivity... Here, Science and Faith arereconciled in an unexpected way: scientific objectivity is not an issue;but the real issue, where one sees no proof of progress, is whetherman is capable of using modern science properly.: 3Jean-PierreLafouge, Marquette University.aWriting as an active research scientist, living in the present Cultureof Disbelief created (partly unwittingly) by the science establishment,I can think of no Research and Development project more significantto the future of humanity than putting science back into its properplace as a part of culture, but not its religion. This book is an excellentcontribution to that paramount goal.: 3Rustum Roy, Evan PughProfessor of the Solid State, Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University.

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 : Tom Wessels
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611684641
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Progress written by Tom Wessels and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative critique of Western progress from a scientific perspective

Author : Rodrigo Aguilera
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1912248816
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Glass Half-Empty written by Rodrigo Aguilera and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the doom and gloom of financial crises, global terrorism, climate collapse, and the rise of the far-right, a number of leading intellectuals (Steven Pinker, Hans Rosling, Johan Norberg, and Matt Ridley, among others) have been arguing in recent years that the world is getting better and better. But this “progress narrative” is little more than a very conservative defence of the capitalist status quo. At a time when liberal democracy appears incapable of stemming the tide of the far-right populism, and when laissez-faire capitalism is ill-equipped to deal with socio-economic problems like climate change, inequality, and the future of wok, the real advocates of progress are those willing to challenge these established paradigms. The Glass Half-Empty argues that, without criticising the systems of capitalism, the changes needed to make a better world will always fall short of our expectations. The "progress narrative" needs to be challenged before we stumble into a potentially catastrophic future, despite having the means to build a truly better world.

Author : Larry Laudan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520037212
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Progress and Its Problems written by Larry Laudan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978-10-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book that shakes philosophy of science to its roots. Laudan both destroys and creates. With detailed, scathing criticisms, he attacks the 'pregnant confusions' in extant philosophies of science. The progress they espouse derives from strictly empirical criteria, he complains, and this clashes with historical evidence. Accordingly, Laudan constructs a remedy from historical examples that involves nothing less than the redefinition of scientific rationality and progress . . . Surprisingly, after this reshuffling, science still looks like a noble-and progressive-enterprise ... The glory of Laudan's system is that it preserves scientific rationality and progress in the presence of social influence. We can admit extra-scientific influences without lapsing into complete relativism. . . a must for both observers and practitioners of science." --Physics Today "A critique and substantial revision of the historic theories of scientific rationality and progress (Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Feyerabend, etc.). Laudan focuses on contextual problem solving effectiveness (carefully defined) as a criterion for progress, and expands the notion of 'paradigm' to a 'research tradition,' thus providing a meta-empirical basis for the commensurability of competing theories. From this perspective, Laudan suggests revised programs for history and philosophy of science, the history of ideas, and the sociology of science. A superb work, closely argued, clearly written, and extensively annotated, this book will become a widely required text in intermediate courses."--Choice

Author : John Gray
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374229171
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silence of Animals written by John Gray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exploration of the failures of reason in human life and the enduring role of myth in science, politics, and morality"--

Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611684161
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Progress written by Tom Wessels and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative critique of Western progress from a scientific perspective

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113597473X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Framework written by Karl Popper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material on this subject. Sir Karl discusses such issues as the aims of science, the role that it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibility of the scientist, the structure of history, and the perennial choice between reason and revolution. In doing so, he attacks intellectual fashions (like positivism) that exagerrate what science and rationality have done, as well as intellectual fashions (like relativism) that denigrate what science and rationality can do. Scientific knowledge, according to Popper, is one of the most rational and creative of human achievements, but it is also inherently fallible and subject to revision. In place of intellectual fashions, Popper offers his own critical rationalism - a view that he regards both as a theory of knowlege and as an attitude towards human life, human morals and democracy. Published in cooperation with the Central European University.

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 : 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.