Scientism
Regular price
€64.99
A01=Tom Sorell
Author_Tom Sorell
Bacon's Classification
beginning
Belief Acquisition
Carbon Monoxide Gas
Category=PDA
Category=QDH
churchland
Colour Blind Man
Common Human Reason
conjectural
Darwinian Ethics
empiricism
Epigenetic Rule
epistemology
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_science
Error Theory
False Mirror
fine
folk
Folk Physics
Folk Psychological Generalizations
Folk Psychology
German Scientific Community
German Southwest Africa
humanities integration
Jam Tomorrow
mises
Moral Observation
moral philosophy
naturalism critique
Naturalized Epistemology
Otmar Von Verschuer
patricia
philosophy of science
psychology
rationalism debate
Replacement Thesis
scientific method in philosophy
Scientific Psychology
Secondary Qualities
Soft Core Altruism
Standard Observer
Traditional Epistemology
Vice Versa
von
Product details
- ISBN 9780415107716
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
First Published in 2004. Scientism is the belief that science, especially natural science, is the most valuable part of our culture. Although not confined to philosophers, it is from Bacon and Descartes up to the naturalized epistemology of Quine that the clearest statements of the scientistic attitude are to be found. This book shows how Western philosophy has been dominated by an identification with the aims of science and the rationality of its methods. This has resulted in attempts to either dismiss the unscientific or to put it on a scientific footing. The author criticizes this scientific view of philosophy, wishing not to devalue science but to increase the value placed on the arts and humanities. He insists that philosophy is not a science and condemns recent attempts in the name of naturalism to revive the project of a scientific philosophy.
Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Diane J. Goodman, Khyati Y. Joshi
