University of Minnesota Press, 1998 Paper: 978-0-8166-3125-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-3124-7 Library of Congress Classification Q175.5.F85 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.45
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
1
The Public Understanding of Science: Our Latest Moral Panic
Notes
2
The Sociological Peculiarity of the Natural Sciences
Notes
3
‘Science’, ‘Scientific’, ‘Scientist’: Some Exercises in Conceptual Analysis
Science
Scientific
Scientist
Notes
4
Science as Superstition: A Lost Martian Chronicle
Mystery
Soteriology
Saintliness
Magic causation
Theodicy
Conclusion and recommendations
Appendices
Appendix 1:
The Mertonian norms
Appendix 2:
The Science Citation Index
Notes
5
The Secret of Science's Success: Convenient Forgetfulness
Recovering science's historicity: Needham's Grand Question
Temporal colonialism: a retrospected past and an irreversible future
The method of modernist metahistory: time-discounting
The fruits of forgetfulness: the relative advantage of backwardness
Notes
6
Western Science from the Outside In: The View from Islam and Japan
Islam: scientific autonomy as Western sacrilege
Japan: scientific autonomy as Western superstition
Notes
7
Science as the Standard of Civilization: Does it have a Future?