Science As a Quest for Truth : The Interpretation Lab / Bengt Kristensson Uggla, translated by Stephen Donovan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uggla, Bengt Kristensson, author.

Contributor:

Donovan, Stephen, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2024]

Summary:

This book presents a unified theory of science by challenging some of the lingering myths and anachronisms associated with our understanding of what it means to be scientific. The book presents a new science narrative focused on the dialectics of discovering/inventing new worlds in an age of hermeneutics, and as an alternative to the prevailing view of the history of science as, largely, a confrontation between science and religion. It argues that the development of modern science is, in a complex way, intertwined with the history of the university, a knowledge institution that throughout the centuries has repeatedly managed to reinvent itself--so successfully, indeed, that it has paradoxically led to a fundamental crisis of identity today. The book suggests that, in order to recognize science as a quest for truth in a globalizing world of cognitive horizontalization, we need to transcend the false alternatives of objectivistic certitude (possessing "the Truth") and relativistic resignation ("post-truth") by means of a new focus on collegial practices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kristensson Uggla, Bengt Science As a Quest for Truth

ISBN:

1-5275-3446-4