Objectivity, Science and Society - Interpreting Nature and Society in the Age of the Crisis of Science

Informationen zum Autor Paul Komesaroff is a physician, researcher and philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, where he is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethics in Medicine and Society. Klappentext This work remains of compelling interest to those concerned with the natural sciences and their social problems. It puts forward original and unorthodox ideas about the philosophy of and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep problems arising from unresolved dilemmas about the meaning, content and technical applications of the theories of nature they employ. Zusammenfassung Puts forward unorthodox ideas about the philosophy of and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep problems arising from unresolved dilemmas about the meaning, content and technical applications of the theories of nature they employ. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: The Sociology of science: Issues and Hypotheses, orientations and disorientations. Part 2: Husserl: Insights and Dilemmas. Part 3: Objectivist Science and Capitalism: The possibility of non-objectivist science. Part 4: The diversity within modern science. Part 5: Introduction to the sociology of objectivity

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Paul A Komesaroff
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.08.2008
• EAN: 9780415474870
• ISBN: 978-0-415-47487-0
• Seiten: 454
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / General, SCIENCE / General, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science