The End of Science?: Attack and Defense (The Nobel Conference Series) - Softcover

Elvee, Richard Q.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081918490X ISBN 13: 9780819184900

Publisher: University Press of America, 1992

Synopsis

The title The End of Science? asks not whether science itself is about to end or even to wane, but whether people will stop claiming that science knows nature as it is. Science, it suggests, may know nature only as the scientist sees it. Or the title suggests that, in knowing nature, scientists to some extent create nature. No one bothers to ask philosophers or theologians, poets, or politicians, workers or bosses whether they know the world as it is. It is common knowledge that the world for which they speak has been affected already by their description of that world. Will not the same fate strike scientists now? Has it not already? This is the basic issue that the six distinguished contributors address. They include Sandra Harding, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Ian Hacking, Mary Hesse, Gerald Holton, and Gunther S. Stent. Co-published with the Nobel Conference.

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The End of Science? This title asks not whether science itself is about to end or even to wane, but whether people will stop claiming that science knows nature as it is. Science, it suggests, may know nature only as scientists see it; or even that, in "knowing" nature, scientists to some extent create it. Full description

Synopsis

This title asks not whether science itself is about to end or even to wane, but whether people will stop claiming that science knows nature as it is. Science, it suggests, may know nature only as scientists see it; or even that, in "knowing" nature, scientists to some extent create it.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081918490X
• ISBN 13: 9780819184900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104