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Is science neurotic? / Nicholas Maxwell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maxwell, Nicholas, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Imperial College Press ; Hackensack, NJ : Distrubuted by World Scientific Pub., c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Is Science Neurotic? sets out to show that science suffers from a damaging but rarely noticed methodological disease -- ""rationalistic neurosis."" Assumptions concerning metaphysics, human value and politics, implicit in the aims of science, are repressed, and the malaise has spread to affect the whole academic enterprise, with the potential for extraordinarily damaging long-term consequences.
- Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; The Natural Sciences; Implications for Natural Science; Implications for Social Inquiry; What Is to Be Done?; Appendix; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781860945627
- 9786611866532
- 9781281866530
- 1281866539
- 9781860945625
- 1860945627
- OCLC:
- 57581350
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