Scientific tradition and other traditions
Author | : B M. Udgaonkar |
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Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : B M. Udgaonkar |
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Release | : 1993 |
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Author | : John Francis Arundell |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781019792179 |
This book presents a defence of the value of tradition in the natural sciences. Arundell argues that traditions, conventions, and established practices play an essential role in scientific inquiry and discovery, and that too much emphasis on novelty and innovation can lead to epistemic and practical problems. Drawing on case studies from various scientific disciplines, Arundell provides a thought-provoking and timely analysis of the nature of scientific knowledge. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Stephen Gaukroger |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2008-10-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191563919 |
Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development. Rejecting the traditional picture of secularization, he argues that science in the seventeenth century emerged not in opposition to religion but rather was in many respects driven by it. Moreover, science did not present a unified picture of nature but was an unstable field of different, often locally successful but just as often incompatible, programmes. To complicate matters, much depended on attempts to reshape the persona of the natural philosopher, and distinctive new notions of objectivity and impartiality were imported into natural philosophy, changing its character radically by redefining the qualities of its practitioners. The West's sense of itself, its relation to its past, and its sense of its future, have been profoundly altered since the seventeenth century, as cognitive values generally have gradually come to be shaped around scientific ones. Science has not merely brought a new set of such values to the task of understanding the world and our place in it, but rather has completely transformed the task, redefining the goals of enquiry. This distinctive feature of the development of a scientific culture in the West marks it out from other scientifically productive cultures. In The Emergence of a Scientific Culture, Stephen Gaukroger offers a detailed and comprehensive account of the formative stages of this development—-and one which challenges the received wisdom that science was seen to be self-evidently the correct path to knowledge and that the benefits of science were immediately obvious to the disinterested observer.
Author | : Edward Shils |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226753263 |
Explores the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. This book reveals the importance of tradition to social and political institutions, technology, science, literature, religion, and scholarship.
Author | : Gary B. Ferngren |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2019-02-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781138867833 |
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Alister E. McGrath |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567083531 |
How do science and theology interact? What can be gained by exploring Christian theology using the insights of the natural sciences? Can a synergy be found? Is there a defensible natural theology within the scope and framework of a revealed God?
Author | : Brett M. Rogers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190228334 |
For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own 'classic' status is a matter of ongoing debate, science fiction reveals much about the roles played by ancient classics in modern times. Classical Traditions in Science Fiction is the first collection in English dedicated to the study of science fiction as a site of classical receptions, offering a much-needed mapping of that important cultural and intellectual terrain. This volume discusses a wide variety of representative examples from both classical antiquity and the past four hundred years of science fiction, beginning with science fiction's "rosy-fingered dawn" and moving toward the other-worldly literature of the present day. As it makes its way through the eras of science fiction, Classical Traditions in Science Fiction exposes the many levels on which science fiction engages the ideas of the ancient world, from minute matters of language and structure to the larger thematic and philosophical concerns.
Author | : David L. Gosling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2007-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134143338 |
This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. Gosling examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and secular Western scientific doctrine. He charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the subsequent reassertion, adaptation and rejection of traditional modes of thought. The beliefs of key Indian scientists, including Jagadish Chandra Bose, P.C. Roy and S.N. Bose are explored and the book goes on to reflect upon how individual scientists could still accept particular religious beliefs such as reincarnation, cosmology, miracles and prayer. Science and the Indian Tradition gives an in-depth assessment of results of the introduction of Western science into India, and will be of interest to scholars of Indian history and those interested in the interaction between Western and Indian traditions of intellectual thought.
Author | : Nicholas Jardine |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198249290 |
Until about the middle of this century philosophers and scientists commonly held that science showed an accumulation of a body of objective knowledge. This view has been very widely challenged over recent years; but in this study Dr Jardine offers a defence.The discussion involves consideration of many controversial issues concerning truth in science, interpretation of past theories, and grounds of scientific method. The author writes with a careful appreciation of the complexities involved and argues for a distinctive point of view with skill andclarity.
Author | : Alister E. McGrath |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2007-01-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567031233 |
The second volume of an extended and systematic exploration of the relation between Christian theology and the natural sciences, focussing on the examination and defense of theological realism