Science
by Steve Fuller
University of Minnesota Press, 1998
Cloth: 978-0-8166-3124-7 | Paper: 978-0-8166-3125-4
Library of Congress Classification Q175.5.F85 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.45
TOC
- 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?
- Notes
- Suggested Reading
- References
- Index
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