1st Edition
The Triumph of Uncertainty Science and Self in the Postmodern Age
By Alfred I. Tauber
Copyright 2022
404 Pages
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Central European University Press
404 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science’s – and his own personal – quest for explanatory certainty. During the 20th century, that goal was... Read more
Foreword Scott F. Gilbert Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Beginnings Chapter 2. On Ways of Knowing Chapter 3. Transitions Chapter 4. Rewriting Immunology Chapter 5. The Immune Self Chapter 6. Systems Philosophically Considered Chapter 7. Pursuing the Enigmatic Self Chapter 8. Rethinking Science Chapter 9. Outline of a Post-Positivist Philosophy of Science Chapter 10. A New Agenda Chapter 11. Personalizing ScienceChapter 12. Moral Epistemology Chapter 13. Requiem for the Ego Chapter 14. Identity Reconsidered, Conclusion, Appendix—The Modernist Self, Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Alfred I. Tauber, Professor of Philosophy, emeritus and Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, emeritus at Boston University, has published extensively on the theoretical development of immunology (Immunity, the Evolution of an Idea, Oxford 2017), contemporary science studies (Science and the Quest for Meaning, Baylor 2009), and medical ethics (Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility, MIT 2005).
