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Author:   John C. Caiazza
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.317kg
ISBN:  

9781412862530

ISBN 10:   1412862531
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   31 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: History and Impact of the Idea of Progress On Progress, Its Variations, and Rejection The Entanglement of Science and Social Values Three Themes 2 Whig History and the Progressive Society Whig History and Critical History Evidence of Progress in Science 1: Discovery—Spectrography Evidence of Progress in Science 2: Theory—Mendel's Laws The Separation Thesis: Modern Science Departs from the Medieval World-View Leaving Aristotle, One Science at a Time The Projected Ideal Ends of Science Bacon's Prophetic Vision in the New Atlantis Science-Inspired Social Norms—Dewey's Progressivism 3 Enlightenment Progress and the Cosmopolitan Society Enlightenment Variation of Scientific Progress Duhem's Continuity Challenge Duhem's Philosophy of Science and the Continuity Thesis Cultural and Social Criticism Koyre's Infinity Defense of Enlighted Science Causality and Mechanical Reason Kant on Diminished Reason and the Cosmopolitan Social Ideal 4 Progress by Reduction and the Totalitarian Temptation Reduction in Full Reduction and the History of Science Anti-Reductionist Views Hobbes and the Totalitarian Temptation Reduction and Atheism 5 Historicism, Relativism, and the Open Society From the Philosophy of Science to the History of Science Deep Patterns: Vico Global Wholes: Kuhn Historicist Idealism and Its Critics: Scheffler Meaning and Science History: Popper Historicism and Popper's Contentless ""Open Society"" The Open Society, Right and Left 6 Where We Are Now: Technology and Culture Techno-Secularism Technology and Cultural Stasis Science Itself Digital Fantasy Replaces Lived Reality The Electronic Ego 7 Philosophy, Progress, and Cosmology Modern Science and Philosophy in Contrast Three Examples of Scientists Doing Philosophy (and Theology) Is Not Naturalism a Philosophy? The Law of Diminishing Reductive Returns The Philosophic Timeline of Scientific Progress Wittgenstein, Toulmin, and Natural Theology 8 Cosmology and Human Existence Cosmic Role of the Observer in Postmodern Physics Scientific Cosmology and Human Existence Two Concepts of God: Scientific and Religious Recent Science Reveals the Permanence of Natural Human Differences The Limits of Social Science—Nussbaum The Recovery of Ancient Virtue—MacIntyre 9 Conclusion: Crisis, Time, and the Choice Crisis in Progress and Social Values Agentic Time The Nature of the Crisis: Pascal or Nietzsche? Index

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

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