344 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this path-breaking and controversial book, Harry Redner provides a systematic study of how the epistemologically interesting features of contemporary science are to be understood. Taking “science†to include knowledge from the social sciences and humanities as well as the physical sciences, Redner shows how the history of science, philosophical theory, and current scientific research reveal... Read more
Preface -- From Classical Science to World Science -- The Great Transformation -- Science and Progress -- The Characteristics of World Science -- Knowledge and Authority -- Knowledge and Authority: An Introduction -- The Forms of Scientific Authority -- Pathologies of Science -- A Scientific Reformation -- The Main Movements of Reform -- On the Way to Future Science
Biography
Harry Redner is senior lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. In 1987 he is a senior Fulbright Fellow at both the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of In the Beginning Was the Deed: Reflections on the Passage of Faust (1982), The Ends of Philosophy: An Essay in the Sociology of Philosophy and Rationality (1986), and (with Jill Redner) Anatomy of the World (1983).
