Science and the Self
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- ISBN 9780761828440
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 161 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2004
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Science and the Self offers a fundamental re-conception of the relationship between science, a specific type of knowledge, and the other types of knowledge that are equally part of life. Those who practice science typically insist that it is objective, not subjective. Opposing them, philosophers such as Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Foucault—indeed, the very tenor of our times—emphasize science's subjective qualities. Science and the Self seeks to explain how reasonable people can hold either view. Offering an alternative to Robert Nozick's relativism, it argues that the world is objective. However it is so only because (and to the extent that) we subjective humans banish from its language the vast iceberg of things, which cannot be expressed in its terms. Most of daily life is composed of situational knowledge, which, unlike the scientific knowledge we may distill from it, is tied to the specific moment and place it arises in. Science and the Self offers a refreshing, coherent view that explains the nature of the self in the world, the nature of belief, and whether miracles are possible.
Bruce E. Fleming holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Vanderbilt University. He is Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and author of Art and Argument (University Press of America, 2003).
