Scientific Values and Civic VirtuesNoretta Koertge Oxford University Press, 2005 M08 4 - 256 páginas This volume of contributed essays, a follow-up to Noretta Koertge's successful book on the science wars, A House Built on Sand, takes an affirming, positive view of the relationship between the values embodied in science, and the nature of a civil society. It argues that recent attacks on the probity of science undermine the possibility of rational discourse in the political arena. While science has traditionally been viewed as incorporating intellectual virtues like honesty and precision of language, the contributors to this volume point to additional benefits, examining the idea that science can serve as a source of, and inspiration for, civic virtues--in the need to be well-informed about the way the world works, in tolerating the viewpoints of others, and in functioning as a fully global enterprise dedicated to the public good. The contributors--who include philosophers, political scientists, physicists, biologists and engineers--look at examples of scientific virtues in action and how they might be used as inspirations and practical resources for improving civic society. The volume will appeal to a similarly broad audience interested in the relationship between science and society. |
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Values Revealed in the Work of Scientists | 81 |
Sites of Struggle Downgrading Science While Weakening Democracy | 155 |
Index | 237 |
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Página 42 - As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.
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Página 164 - But with a view to the progress of science, the materialistic terminology is in every way to be preferred. For it connects thought with the other phenomena of the universe, and suggests inquiry into the nature of those physical conditions, or concomitants of thought, which are more or less accessible to us, and a knowledge of which may, in...
Página 15 - And, therefore, it was a good answer that was made by one who, when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of those who had paid their vows as having escaped shipwreck, and would have him say whether he did not now acknowledge the power of the gods, — ' Aye,' asked he again, ' but where are they painted that were drowned after their vows...
Página 88 - In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.
Página 41 - Let us start with a review of the theories of other thinkers; for the proofs of a theory are difficulties for the contrary theory. Besides, those who have first heard the pleas of our adversaries will be more likely to credit the assertions which we are going to make.
Página 19 - science" because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts; I see it bringing a time of vast conflicts, which will pale into insignificance "the thousand wars of old", and, as likely as not, will whelm all the laborious advances of mankind...
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Página 72 - I would address one general admonition to all ; that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things ; but for the benefit and use of life ; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.
Página 71 - The second charter of the Royal Society of London (1663) echoes this invidious comparison. The investigations of its Fellows were to be "applied to further promoting by the authority of experiments the sciences of natural things and of useful arts, to the Glory of God !.h* Creator, and the advantage of the human race.