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Title: Faith, Science, and Society
Condition: New
Author: Peter E. Hodgson
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781932589467
ISBN: 9781932589467
Publisher: Ave Maria University Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 30/05/2013
Description: In its concern with science as an essentially human enterprise, Faith, Science, and Society makes an original and challenging contribution to the philosophy of science. On its appearance in 1946 the book quickly became the focus of controversy. Polanyi aims to show that science must be understood as a community of inquirers held together by a common faith; science, he argues, is not the use of ""scientific method"" but rather consists in a discipline imposed by scientists on themselves in the interests of discovering an objective, impersonal truth. That such truth exists and can be found is part of the scientists' faith. Polanyi maintains that both authoritarianism and scepticism, attacking this faith, are attacking science itself.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Release Year: 2013

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