Wiener / Ramsey Leaving Us to Wonder

An Essay on the Questions Science Can't Ask
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8403-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 173 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Philosophy and Biology

Explores the larger social, political, and philosophical contexts in which the current vitriolic science vs. anti-science debates occur.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiener, Linda

Ramsey, Ramsey Eric

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. A Place to Begin
Curiosity and Wonder
A Place to Begin
Mistaking the Abstract for Concrete
Today's Popular Science
The Spirit of Socrates
2. The Persistence of a Question
Some Background Questions
Kant and the Enlightenment
The Emergence of Evolutionary Theory
The Promotion of Human Sociobiology
3. What Darwin and Nietzsche Saw
Some Background on Darwin and Nietzsche
Darwin's Descent of Man: The Evolution of Morality
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals: The Evolution of (A Different) Morality
Nietzsche's Differences with Darwin
4. Provoking Thought
Heidegger and the Distinction between Ways of Thinking
Merleau-Ponty and the Importance of Embodied Experience
5. The Limits of Science and the Danger of Scientism: Drawing Out the Consequences for Thinking
Faces that Launched a Thousand Web Site Hits
A More Serious Concern
6. Leaving Us to Wonder
The Difficulty Begins Here
Thinking Beyond and Otherwise
Turning to the Public Sphere
Desire for Public Dialogue
Leaving Us to Wonder
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Linda Wiener is Faculty with Tenure at St. John's College at Santa Fe. Ramsey Eric Ramsey is a philosopher and Associate Dean of The Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University West.