Proper Ambition of Science

Proper Ambition of Science

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What is the proper relation between the scientific worldview and other parts or aspects of human knowledge and experience? Can any science aim at "complete coverage" of the world, and if it does, will it undermine--in principle or by tendency--other attempts to describe or understand the world? Should morality, theology and other areas resist or be protected from scientific treatment? Questions of this sort have been of pressing philosophical concern since antiquity. The Proper Ambition of Science presents ten particular case studies written by prominent philosophers, looking at how this problem has been approached from the ancient world right up to the present day.

Contributors: Bob Sharples, M.W.F. Stone, G.A.J. Rogers, J.R. Milton, Aaron Ridley, Christopher Hookway, Dermot Moran, Thomas E. Uebel, David Papineau, and Nancy Cartwright.

Proper Ambition of Science,M. W. F. Stone,Routledge,041518617X,General,Philosophy,Philosophy & Social Aspects,Philosophy Of Science,Science,Science and civilization,Science/Mathematics,History of science,Philosophy / General

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