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Objectivity, Science and Society Interpreting nature and society in the age of the crisis of science
By Paul A Komesaroff
Copyright 1986
466 Pages
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Routledge
466 Pages
by
Routledge
472 Pages
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Routledge
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Originally published in 1986. 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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
