The science delusion : asking the big questions in a culture of easy answers / Curtis White.
Material type: TextPublication details: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, c2013Description: 215 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 1612192009 (hc.)
- 9781612192000 (hc.)
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 501 W583 | Available | 33111007148113 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In The Science Delusion, Curtis White argues that the rich philosophical debates of the 19th century have been almost totally abandoned. Instead, students are taught that science can resolve all questions. White describes this new era as one of scientism' - and fears for what will happen if it is allowed to flourish unchallenged as the new religion, one with many unexplained assumptions. White rounds off with a learned defence of the tradition of Romanticism, which he believes a technology and science-obsessed world desperately needs to recover.'
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- What's a good lunch? -- Romanticism as counterculture -- DNA: a parasite that builds its own host? -- This bit of neural matter -- We insiders -- In praise of play, dissonance, and freaking out -- Works cited -- Index.