Is science neurotic? / Nicholas Maxwell.

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 sp...

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Main Author: Maxwell, Nicholas, 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Imperial College Press, ©2004.
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1860945627
9781860945625
1281866539
9781281866530
9786611866532
6611866531
Language:English.