The Crisis of Progress: Science, Society, and Values - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1412862531 ISBN 13 : 9781412862530

Editeur : Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This book is about the concept of progress, its separate varieties, its current rejection, and how it may be reconsidered from a philosophical and scientific basis. John C. Caiazza's main emphasis is on how science is understood as it has a direct impact on social values as expressed by prominent philosophers. He argues that progress is at a standstill, which presents a crisis for Western civilization.

Caiazza presents historical examples, both of scientific inquiry and social and cultural themes, to examine the subject of progress. Beginning with the Whig model and progressive political values exemplified by Bacon and Dewey, he also examines other variations, the Enlightenment, cosmopolitanism, and totalitarianism. Technology, argues Caiazza, also has a stultifying effect on Western culture and to understand the idea of progress, we must take a philosophic rather than a scientific point of view. Modern cosmology has inevitable humanistic and theological implications, and major contemporary philosophers reject social science in favour of ancient concepts of virtue and ethics.

In the end, Caiazza writes that time is an agent, not a neutral plain on which scientific and historical events occur. We can expect technology to keep us in stasis or become aware of the possibility of transcendence. This book will be of interest for students of scientific history and philosophy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John C. Caiazza is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Rivier University. He is the author of The War of the Jesus and Darwin Fishes, The Ethics of Cosmology, and The Disunity of American Culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1412862531
• ISBN 13: 9781412862530
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 174
• Éditeur: Caiazza John C.
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