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Aims of Science
Anti-Science
Author_Nicholas Maxwell
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Higher Education
Humanities
Philosophy
Philosophy of Physics
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Social Science
Psychoanalysis
Rationality
Science and Politics
Science and Values
Scientific Revolution
Sociology of Science
Product details
- ISBN 9781860945007
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Is Science Neurotic? sets out to show that science suffers from a damaging but rarely noticed methodological disease — “rationalistic neurosis.” Assumptions concerning metaphysics, human value and politics, implicit in the aims of science, are repressed, and the malaise has spread to affect the whole academic enterprise, with the potential for extraordinarily damaging long-term consequences.The book begins with a discussion of the aims and methods of natural science, and moves on to discuss social science, philosophy, education, psychoanalytic theory and academic inquiry as a whole. It makes an original and compelling contribution to the current debate between those for and those against science, arguing that science would be of greater human value if it were more rigorous — we suffer not from too much scientific rationality, but too little. The author discusses the need for a revolution in the aims of science and academic inquiry in general and, in a lively and accessible style, spells out a thesis with profound importance for the long-term future of humanity.
