From a Scientific Point of View: Reasoning and Evidence Beat Improvisation across Fields

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 27 de jul. de 2018 - 169 páginas
This book deals with the scientific viewpoint, which is illustrated here through a number of topical cases in modern science, from gravitational waves to mental disorders to social policies. The scientific perspective involves rationality, realism, and reism – the thesis that the universe is composed of concrete things like atoms, force fields, people, and social organizations. The book shows that the scientific worldview underlies all current scientific and technological research projects. It also claims that any subject involving knowledge can be approached scientifically, and contends that the scientific viewpoint can trump both dogma and improvisation – the standbys of amateurs and demagogues.

 

Conteúdo

1 The Scientific Worldview
1
2 Should Scientists Listen to Philosophers?
15
3 Interdependence of Epistemology and Metaphysics
29
4 Human Nature is Unnatural
37
5 The Study of Early Societies
53
6 Reframing Mental Disorders
71
7 Technology Applied Science
79
Authentic and Bogus
87
9 Amateurs and Professionals
95
10 Crime Criminology and Penology
113
11 Gravitational Waves and the Nature of Space
119
12 Is Scientific Philosophy Possible?
125
References
147
Permission Acknowledgements
155
Index
157
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Sobre o autor (2018)

Mario Bunge holds a doctorate in Physico-mathematical Sciences, as well as 22 honorary doctorates, and has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics or Philosophy at the universities of Buenos Aires, La Plata, Pennsylvania, Temple, and Delaware, as well as a Visiting Professor in Brazilian, Danish, German, Italian, Mexican and Swiss universities. He is a recipient of the Prince of Asturias prize, as well as Guggenheim, Alexander von Humboldt, and Killam fellowships. He is a member of several learned societies, including the Academia Argentina de Ciencias, Institut International de Philosophie, and the Royal Society of Canada. He founded the philosophical journal Minerva, the Society for Exact Philosophy, the Universidad Obrera Argentina, and associations for the philosophy of science in Argentina, México, and Uruguay. Bunge is the author of more than 500 papers and 74 books, including Causality (1959), Foundations of Physics (1967), the nine-volume Treatise on Basic Philosophy (1974-89), The Mind-Body Problem (1980), Finding Philosophy in Social Science (1996), Social Science Under Debate (1998), and Medical Philosophy (2013), among others. His work has been translated into a dozen languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Hungarian, Japanese, and Russian.

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