The Ends Of Science: An Essay In Scientific Authority

ISBN-13: 9780367307233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 344 str.

Harry Redner

Opis

This book provides a systematic study of how the epistemologically interesting features of contemporary science are to be understood. It argues that the shift from Classical science to a more complex and less orderly World science after World War II has changed the way scientific research is done.

Spis treści

Preface -- From Classical Science to World Science -- The Great Transformation -- Science and Progress -- The Characteristics of World Science -- Knowledge and Authority -- Knowledge and Authority: An Introduction -- The Forms of Scientific Authority -- Pathologies of Science -- A Scientific Reformation -- The Main Movements of Reform -- On the Way to Future Science

O autorze

Harry Redner is senior lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. In 1987 he is a senior Fulbright Fellow at both the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of In the Beginning Was the Deed: Reflections on the Passage of Faust (1982), The Ends of Philosophy: An Essay in the Sociology of Philosophy and Rationality (1986), and (with Jill Redner) Anatomy of the World (1983).