Folke Dovring

Knowledge and Ignorance (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Lights and Shadows

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Dovring explores the limits of science as causes of ignorance. Some topics examined in these essays are problems with our ways of knowing and the impact of emotion on objectivity. He argues that reality consists of designs-of things and processes. While most designs we might think of cannot exist, those that can exist add up to a tool box of creation which contains the detailed laws of nature, many of them synergisms. Reality must conform to this web of necessities, hence the danger of unchecked virtual reality.

These lines of thought are then applied to evolution as creation and history. In a final essay, Dovring explores topics upon which science should concentrate. This book will be of interest to scientists as well as the lay public interested in the theory of science and questions of truth and faith.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781567507485
• Artikelnr.: 68529162

Autorenporträt

FOLKE DOVRING was Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the author of several books on political economy, including Productivity and Value (Praeger, 1987) and Progress for Food or Food for Progress? (Praeger, 1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Beyond Science: Limits and Problems Lighted Room: The Ways We See
Things Just Inside: The Ways We Know Things Beyond Reach: Things We May
Never Know Design: The Ways Things Are Made Process: The Ways Things Work
Logos: The Ways Things Must Be Creation: The Ways Our World Was Made
History: Limits of Science in Human Affairs What For? Or, What Price
Knowledge? References Index