LEADER 04421nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910450700803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-84122-1 010 $a0-585-45579-1 010 $a1-280-10979-3 010 $a9786610109791 010 $a0-203-42697-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000253574 035 $a(EBL)179498 035 $a(OCoLC)647380614 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000309027 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11240006 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309027 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10260789 035 $a(PQKB)11017975 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC179498 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL179498 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10058378 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL10979 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000253574 100 $a19921013d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScientism$b[electronic resource] $ephilosophy and the infatuation with science /$fTom Sorell 210 $aLondon $cRoutledge$d1991 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 1 $aInternational library of philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-16093-8 311 $a0-415-10771-7 320 $aIncludes bibliography. 327 $aCover; SCIENTISM; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 SCIENTISM AND 'SCIENTIFIC EMPIRICISM'; What is scientism?; Scientism in twentieth-century philosophy; Five theses of scientific empiricism; The scientism in scientific empiricism; Beyond the exact sciences; A place for the humanities?; Difficulties; 2 THE ROOTS OF SCIENTISM?; Rorty on mirroring; Descartes and ideas fit for science; Ideas and veils of perception; Idols without veils of perception; Seventeenth-century philosophy and the benefits of science; A questionable pre-eminence for reason and science 327 $aBacon and practical reason 3 REASON, SCIENCE AND THE WIDER CULTURE; Faculties of the mind and faculties of knowledge; Reason and the lower faculties of knowledge; Practical reason; Practical reason in history; Reason, culture and human nature; Other faculties; Aesthetic feeling; Genius; The fine arts and their value; The sciences and practical science; Difficulties; The Kantian apparatus; The status of history and religion; The arts and the purposes of the arts; 4 MORAL CRITICISMS OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES; Five objections to science; Science and pride; Science and evil ends 327 $aScience and insensitivity Science and the conditions of decadence; Science and meaninglessness; Conclusion, and a remark about moral objections to the arts; Second thoughts about the ends of culture; 5 THE TWO CULTURES; The Snow-Leavis controversy; The two cultures and one-sidedness; The arts, science and the mediation of the humanities; The danger of denying (or deconstructing) a difference; The new monotony and the value of diversity; Rorty and 'dedivinization'; 6 THE NEW SCIENTISM IN PHILOSOPHY; Pluralism about philosophical problems; Naturalized epistemology 327 $aVariations on a 'replacement' thesis Unassimilated epistemology; Philosophy without folk psychology?; Folk psychologies; 7 NATURALISMS IN THE MORAL SCIENCES; Ethics, objectivity and naturalism; Values and secondary qualities compared; A model for the subjectivity of value?; The asymmetry developed; 'Darwinian ethics'; From morals to the moral sciences; Social studies, science and interpretation; 'Critical naturalism'; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aSorrell is critical of the scientistic tendency in philosophy. He does not wish to devalue science but supports the need to raise the status of arts and humanities within the discipline. 410 0$aInternational library of philosophy. 606 $aScientism 606 $aPhilosophy and science 606 $aScientism$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy and science$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 00$aScientism. 615 00$aPhilosophy and science. 615 00$aScientism$xHistory. 615 00$aPhilosophy and science$xHistory. 676 $a100 676 $a149 700 $aSorell$b Tom$0280111 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450700803321 996 $aScientism$92177227 997 $aUNINA