by Richard N. Williams, Daniel N. Robinson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781474287944
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«Scientism: The New Orthodoxy» is the collective philosophical work edited by Richard N. Williams and Daniel N. Robinson, in paperback (208 pages, in English).
The volume addresses scientism as a philosophical phenomenon: it analyses what science is, what it is not, and the limits of reducing human knowledge to scientific methods. It reviews the role of science in the humanities, religion and the social sciences, and the influence of neurosciences on law and the self.
A compilation of texts by, among others, Peter Hacker, Bastiaan van Fraassen, Roger Scruton and Richard Swinburne.
It will interest readers of philosophy of science and those debating the scope and limits of the scientific method in the humanities.
