For and Against Scientism

Science, Methodology, and the Future of Philosophy
Herausgeber: Mizrahi, Moti

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Does scientism pose an existential threat to philosophy, as some philosophers think, or is it a way to make philosophy as 'successful' as science? This book intends is to put forward a fruitful dialogue about scientism and its implications for the future of philosophy as an academic discipline.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781538163337
• ISBN-10: 1538163330
• Artikelnr.: 62753042

Autorenporträt

Moti Mizrahi is associate professor of philosophy at the Florida Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Relativity of Theory: Key Positions and Arguments in the Contemporary Scientific Realism/AntirealismDebate (2020) and the editor of The Kuhnian Image of Science: Time for a Decisive Transformation? (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Moti Mizrahi
1. The Scientism Debate: A Battle for the Soul of Philosophy?
Moti Mizrahi
2. The Supposed Spectre of Scientism
Amanda Bryant
3. Conceptions of Philosophy and the Challenges of Scientism
Ian James Kidd
4. How to Defend Scientism
Petri Turunen, Ilkka Pättiniemi, Ilmari Hirvonen, Johan Hietanen, and
Henrik Saarinen
5. Philosophy of Science in Practice and Weak Scientism Together Apart
Luana Poliseli and Federica Russo
6. "Science in the Crosshairs"
Catherine Wilson
7. Between Electrical Light Switches and Panpsychism: Scientism and the
Responsibilities of the Humanities in the 21st Century
Ann-Sophie Barwich
8. Whither Academic Philosophy?
Moti Mizrahi
9. Epilogue
Moti Mizrahi
Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors