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Scientism: Prospects and Problems - Couverture rigide

 
9780190462758: Scientism: Prospects and Problems
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0190462752 ISBN 13 : 9780190462758
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2019

Synopsis

Can only science deliver genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves? Is science our only guide to what exists? Scientism answers both questions with yes. Scientism is increasingly influential in popular scientific literature and intellectual life in general, but philosophers have hitherto largely ignored it. This collection is one of the first to develop and assess scientism as a serious philosophical position. It features twelve new essays by both proponents and critics of scientism.
Before scientism can be evaluated, it needs to be clear what it is. Hence, the collection opens with essays that provide an overview of the many different versions of scientism and their mutual interrelations. Next, several card-carrying proponents of scientism make their case, either by developing and arguing directly for their preferred version of scientism or by responding to objections. Then, the floor is given to critics of scientism. It is examined whether scientism is epistemically vicious, whether scientism presents a plausible general epistemological outlook and whether science has limits. The final four essays zoom out and connect scientism to ongoing debates elsewhere in philosophy. What does scientism mean for religious epistemology? What can science tell us about morality and is a scientistic moral epistemology plausible? How is scientism related to physicalism? And is experimental philosophy really a form of scientism tailored to philosophy?

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À propos de l'auteur

Jeroen de Ridder is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Rik Peels is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

René van Woudenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190462752
ISBN 13 
9780190462758
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Éditeur
De Ridder Jeroen, Peels Rik, Van Woudenberg Rene
Coordonnées du fabricant
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