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Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science » Read Now
by Tom Sorell. 208 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

Since the time of Bacon, Galileo and Descartes, philosophers have identified strongly with the aims of natural science and the rationality of its methods. This is the first full-length study of scientism, the belief that science is the best and most important branch of learning.Tom Sorell is...
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Since the time of Bacon, Galileo and Descartes, philosophers have identified strongly with the aims of natural science and the rationality of its methods. This is the first full-length study of scientism, the belief that science is the best and most important branch of learning.Tom Sorell is critical of the scientistic tendency in philosophy. However, he does not seek to denigrate science. Rather he argues that the arts and humanities are undervalued. Sorell insists that philosophy is not science and condemns recent attempts in the name of 'naturalism' to revive the project of scientific philosophy.
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The Nature and Origins of Scientism » Read Now
by John Wellmuth. 76 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Scientism and Values » Read Now
by Helmut Schoeck, James W. Wiggins. 290 pgs.

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Sociology and Scientism: The American Quest for Objectivity, 1880-1940 » Read Now
by Robert C. Bannister. 316 pgs.

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The Good and the True (Chap. 4 "Scientism") » Read Now
by Michael Morris. 356 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

This book provides a radical alternative to naturalistic theories of content, and offers a new conception of the place of mind in the world. Confronting the scientific conception of the nature of reality that has dominated the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, Morris presents a detailed...
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This book provides a radical alternative to naturalistic theories of content, and offers a new conception of the place of mind in the world. Confronting the scientific conception of the nature of reality that has dominated the Anglo-American philosophical tradition, Morris presents a detailed analysis of content and propositional attitudes based on the idea that truth is a value. He rejects the causal theory of the explanation of behavior and replaces it with an alternative that depends upon a rich conception of the behavior we explain with references to state of mind. His lucid and detailed exposition of this controversial arguments poses an emphatic challenge to the naturalistic orthodoxy in areas as diverse as metaphysics, ethics, and cognitive science.
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Philosophy and Culture -- East and West: East-West Philosophy in Practical Perspective ("Scientism and the Problem of Man" begins on p. 135) » Read Now
by Charles A. Moore. 848 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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The Language of Public Administration: Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity (Chap. 5 "Modernity: Limits of Scientism") » Read Now
by David John Farmer. 314 pgs.

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This original study specifies a reflexive language paradigm for public administration thinking and shows how a postmodern perspective permits a revolution in the character of thinking about public bureaucracy. The author considers imagination, deconstruction, deterritorialization, and alterity...
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This original study specifies a reflexive language paradigm for public administration thinking and shows how a postmodern perspective permits a revolution in the character of thinking about public bureaucracy. The author considers imagination, deconstruction, deterritorialization, and alterity. Farmer's work emphasizes the need for an expansion in the character and scope of public administration's disciplinary concerns and shows clearly how the study and practice of public administration can be reinvigorated.
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The Trap of Scientism, in The American Enterprise » Read Now
by Stephen L. Carter. 2 pgs.

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Creationism vs. Scientism: The Twin Dangers of Religious and Scientific Fundamentalism, in Free Inquiry » Read Now
by Massimo Pigliucci. 5 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library
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The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life (Chap. 14 "Countering Scientism") » Read Now
by Phil Cousineau. 314 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

"My idea of heaven (here on earth) is sitting in a room and listening to Huston Smith talk (and sparkle and sing); the next best thing, surely, is having him here, as he is in these pages, passing on his contagious delight and excitement in the Real in a voice of miraculous clarity and humanity. I...
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"My idea of heaven (here on earth) is sitting in a room and listening to Huston Smith talk (and sparkle and sing); the next best thing, surely, is having him here, as he is in these pages, passing on his contagious delight and excitement in the Real in a voice of miraculous clarity and humanity. I can't think of a more moving and beautiful, more rigorous and wise, book to help us through these troubled times."--Pico Iyer
"In this his new book, Huston Smith gives us his readers a priceless gift during our time of struggle with the nature of good and evil, carefully differentiating between the concepts of good and perfect."--Robert A. Johnson, author of "Inner Work and "We
"Huston Smith, in conversation, sometimes becomes as spontaneous and radiant as the ineffable beauty he talks about. Not all the time. He admits to having a spiritual flu on some days. Wherever he is, though, a clean wind of truth blows through his presence. He always makes me feel more alive! He knows, and lives, and loves whereof he speaks."--Coleman Barks, poet and translator, "Rumi: The Book of Love
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The Proper Ambition of Science (Chap. 9 "Some Scientism, Some Historicism, Some Critics") » Read Now
by M. W.F. Stone, Jonathan Wolff. 232 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

What is the proper relation between the scientific worldview and other aspects of human knowledge and experience? This volume presents case studies, looking at how this problem has been approached from the ancient world right up to the late 1990s.