1st Edition

Scientific Irrationalism Origins of a Postmodern Cult

By Keith Windschuttle Copyright 2001
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philosophical essayists of his era. A fearless attacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism, Darwinian theories of human behavior, and philosophical idealism. Since its inception in the 1940s, the field of science studies,... Read more
One: Philosophy and the English Language: How Irrationalism About Science is Made Credible; One: Neutralising Success Words; Two: Sabotaging Logical Expressions; Two: How Irrationalism About Science Began; Three: The Historical Source Located; Four: The Key Premise of Irrationalism Identified; Five: Further Evidence For This Identification; Afterword

Biography

David Stove