Science Meets Philosophy - What Makes Science Divided But Still Significant

The book is an attempt to bring together what are often seen as incommensurable scientific and philosophical positions. Its core argument is that a main reason for the divisions about what constitutes scientific knowledge relates to disagreements on philosophical issues.

List of contents

1. A king's art
2. Antiquity and the origin of the divides in philosophy of science
3. The realist track towards logical empiricism: the problem of conceptualising reality
4. The idealist track towards phenomenology: the problem of objectivity of thinking
5. The scepticism towards the sociology of science: The problem with the concept of knowing
6. Still a role for philosophy?

About the author

Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen is Professor at the Department of Working Life and Innovation at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder, Norway. He has been Visiting Professor at Deusto University in Spain, Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Senior Researcher at NORCE (previously Agderforskning), and Visiting Scholar at several universities including UC Berkeley and Cornell in the USA, and Kingston University in the UK. His latest books are Coping With the Future: Rethinking Assumptions for Society, Business and Work with Holtskog, Halvor; Ennals, Richard (2018); Applied Social Science Research in a Regional Knowledge System with Hauge, Elisabeth S.; Magnussen, May-Linda; Ennals, Richard (2016).

Summary

The book is an attempt to bring together what are often seen as incommensurable scientific and philosophical positions. Its core argument is that a main reason for the divisions about what constitutes scientific knowledge relates to disagreements on philosophical issues.

Product details

• Authors: Hans Christian Garmann Johnsen, Hans Christian (University of Agd Garmann Johnsen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032354354
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235435-4
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Philosophy of Science, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge