The flight from science and reason
ABCD PBi
The flight from science and reason
Autor:
Paul R Gross
;
N Levitt (Norman), 1943-
;
Martin W Lewis
Assuntos:
Science -- Philosophy -- Congresses
;
Science -- Social aspects -- Congresses
;
Women in science -- Congresses
;
Religion and science -- Congresses
;
MULHERES
;
RELIGIÃO
;
CIÊNCIA (FILOSOFIA)
Notas:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Descrição:
Imaginary gardens with real toads / Conduct and misconduct in science / Mathematics as the stepchild of contemporary culture / Concern for truth : what it means, why it matters / The propensity to believe / Flights of fancy : science, reason, and common sense / Feelings and beliefs / In praise of intolerance to charlatanism in academia / Quantum philosophy : the flight from reason in science / Physics and common nonsense / Science of chaos or chaos in science? / "Sucking with vampires" : the medicine of unreason / Antiscience trends in the rise of the "alternative medicine" movement / Constructivism in psychotherapy : truth and consequences / Radical environmental philosophy and the assault on reason / Is environmental cancer a political disease? / Old messages : ecofeminism and the alienation of young people from environmental activism / Towards a sober sociology of science / Wrestling with the social constructor / Voodoo sociology : recent developments in the sociology of science / The allure of the hybrid : Bruno Latour and the search for a new grand theory / Whatever happened to historical evidence? / Building bridges to Afrocentrism : a letter to my Egyptological colleagues / State of the art/science in anthropology / Liberalism, public opinion, and their critics : some lessons for defending science / Pathological so
Editor:
New York New York Academy of Sciences Baltimore Distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press
Data de criação/publicação:
1997
Formato:
xi, 593 pages illustrations 23 cm.
Idioma:
Inglês
Disponível na Biblioteca:
FEA - Fac. Econ. Adm. Contab. e AtuáriaACERVO DELFIM NETTO (B17.22.22 )