Wissenschaft und insbesondere die Naturwissenschaften haben heute meist mit "Messen", das heisst mit der quantitativen Erfassung der Wirklichkeit zu tun. Das Eigentliche, die "Qualität" der Dinge, entzieht sich jedoch diesem technokratischen Zugriff. Die Position der Wissenschaft im Spannungsfeld zwischen den Polen Quantitas und Qualitas in Geschichte und Gegenwart auszuleuchten, ist das Anliegen der Beiträge dieses Bandes. Sie ...

Wissenschaftstheorie ist eine Disziplin, die untersucht, was Wissenschaftler tun und was sie tun sollten. ...

A collection of essays by a Nobel Prize Laureate on a wide range of critical issues facing the world, and the role of scientists in solving these problems. Kendall has been closely involved with the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that began as an informal assocation at MIT in 1969 to protest US involvement in Vietnam and is today an organization with an annual budget exceeding $6 million, with 100,000 supporters worldwide. UCD is today a ...

In Grenzen der Wissenschaft stellt sich Alan Chalmers einer aktuellen wissenschaftstheoretischen Kontroverse zur Frage, wieweit Wissenschaft auf universellen, ahistorischen Maßstäben und Methoden beruht. Chalmers setzt sich dabei sowohl mit Vertretern des Positivismus und Falsifikationismus auseinander, die Wissenschaftlichkeit an universellen und ahistorischen Maßstäben messen, als auch mit neueren, relativistischen ...

Economics as Moral Science investigates the problem of the ethical neutrality of "mainstream" economic theory within the context of the methodology of economics as a science. Against the conventional wisdom, the author argues that there are serious moral presuppositions to the theory, but that economics could still count as a scientific or rational form of inquiry. The basic questions addressed - the ethical implications of economics, its status ...

This book tackles the question of the symbolic structure of physics, a topic which is implicit in any theory of knowledge, but one that often seems to be ignored as an explicit and central element in today's epistemological debates. The elucidation of this problem should benefit a number of ongoing discussions and can help to avoid much recurring confusion. The contributions to the book have been chosen so as to provide a coherent view, ...

The parallel histories of music and science - from celestial harmony to cosmic dissonance. For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in the sky mirrored (and were mirrored by) the spaces between notes that formed chords and scales. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony that composers sought to ...

Philosophy and the Neurosciences is the first systematic integration of philosophical investigation and neuroscience research. The roots of the integration lie in long-standing philosophical concerns with the epistemology of scientific investigation and the metaphysics of mind. These concerns are interrelated with historical and current research in neuroscience, presented in essays by philosophers and neuroscientists juxtaposed throughout the ...

The primary thesis of this book lies in the authors belief that the emergence of computers as an elemental force in our modern society must be viewed with sceptical - and sometimes negative - eye. Crandall and Levich, one a mathematician and scientist, the other a philosopher and proponent of the liberal arts, strive, however, to present a balanced viewpoint of both sides of this phenomenon, investigating and reflecting on the good and bad sides ...

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