Science Vs Superstition: The Case for a New Scientific Enlightenment - Couverture souple

Panton, James

 
9780955190988: Science Vs Superstition: The Case for a New Scientific Enlightenment
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0955190983 ISBN 13 : 9780955190988
Editeur : The University of Buckingham Press, 2006

Synopsis

Where will humanity end up?

This is a collection of essays covering the most important critical thinking in the conflict between science and the return to the false notion of traditional thinking.

If the attack on science continues, it will endanger the very foundations of the social economic and cultural success of the past three centuries. The enemies of the future will be those who have given up on the very principles on which the enlightenment was founded, preferring mysticism to rationality, ideology to evidence and superstition to science.

Science vs Superstition challenges the common belief that in today's world, there is no such thing as progress which is not dangerous or at least questionable. While many people seem to have lost the vision of a better tomorrow, the authors of Science vs Superstition believe that it is time to make the case for a more positive attitude towards the future - a future that is made brighter through science.

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À propos de l?auteur

JAMES PANTON is lecturer in politics at St John's College, University of Oxford. He is co-founder of The Manifesto Club (www.manifestoclub.com), an organisation launched in January 2006 to develop an enlightened, free-spirited and humanist alternative to the political malaise in contemporary society. He is co-convenor of The Battle of Ideas, an annual festival social, political, scientific, academic and cultural debate; and was a founder member of Pro-Test, the Oxford based campaign in defence of vivisection. James's academic work is on the recent history and contemporary context of social and political thought, especially in to ideas of politics, democracy and rights. He is the author of a number of academic articles on politics, education and 21st century intellectual life, and he writes and comments regularly in the media on issues around vivisection, politics and education.

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Éditeur
The University of Buckingham Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0955190983
ISBN 13 
9780955190988
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
136
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Personne responsable
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