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Author | : Javier Pérez-Jara |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1793618488 |
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Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) was a logician, a philosopher, and one of the twentieth century’s most visible public intellectuals. Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology brings those three aspects together to trace Russell’s changing views on the role of science and technology in society throughout his long intellectual career. Drawing from cultural sociology, history of science, and philosophy, Javier Pérez-Jara and Lino Camprubí provide a fresh multidimensional analysis of the general themes of science, technology, utopia, and apocalypse. The book critically examines Russell’s influential interpretations of the turn-of-the-century mathematical logic, World War I, the metaphysics and epistemology of mind and matter, World War II, nuclear holocaust, and the Vietnam War. In Russell’s compelling narratives, humanity was a powder keg and the match was represented by different and successive meta-adversaries, such as religion, communism, and American imperialism. And the only way to avoid a coming global Holocaust was to follow his own salvific recipes. In working around Russell’s role in the cultural perception of the final destiny of humanity, Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell invites the reader to think about the place of the techno-scientific sphere in human progress and decadence in both our current epoch and the distant future.
Author | : Javier Pérez-Jara |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781793618498 |
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This book weaves together apparently disconnected elements of Bertrand Russell's philosophy and social activism into a coherent narrative about the acclaimed twentieth-century intellectual's evolving stances concerning science and technology and their role in bringing either a future Golden Age or a secular Doomsday.
Author | : Errol E. Harris |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2000-02-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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The influence of scientific paradigms is much more widespread than usually realized. According to Harris, it permeates the whole of the culture of which science is an integral part. The paradigm of Newtonian science was essentially mechanistic and atomistic, and thinking in these terms not only penetrated philosophy, economics, morals and politics for the next three centuries, but remains latent in 20th century ways of thought. As Harris illustrates, the Newtonian paradigm is obsolete in confronting today's global problems. While Planck and Einstein introduced a new scientific revolution at the beginning of the century, it has yet to be reflected in common habits of thinking. It is now urgently necessary to adopt the new conceptual scheme in other fields as it has come to dominate science if global issues are to be resolved. A provocative analysis that will be of particular interest to students, teachers, and policymakers involved with public policy, the history of science and philosophy, and ethics.
Author | : Peter H. Denton |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2001-08-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780791450734 |
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An exploration of Bertrand Russell's writings during the interwar years, a period when he advocated "the scientific outlook" to insure the survival of humanity in an age of potential self-destruction.
Author | : Bertrand Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2005-02 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : 9780851246963 |
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Author | : Bertrand Russell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1136752153 |
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First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Bertrand Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Religion and science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bertrand Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2017-10-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781979023429 |
Download Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays was originally published in 1910 as Philosophical Essays but later republished under the new title. In Mysticism and Logic Bertrand Russell presents ten essays to challenge romantic mysticism and promote a general scientific worldview of society and nature. Russell explains his theory of logical atomism in these witty, cogent writings, which include popular treatments of religious and educational issues as well as more technical examinations of problems of logic.
Author | : Bertrand Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Religion and science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jeff Colvin |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1803411996 |
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'A compulsive read...' Exclusive Magazine Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events. Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists’ boycott led to the end not only of the Cold War but also of the Soviet Union itself.