LEADER 04359nam 22006613 450 001 996487164203316 005 20240424225735.0 010 $a963-386-582-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9789633865828 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6978222 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6978222 035 $a(CKB)24297116300041 035 $a(OCoLC)1338838626 035 $a(DE-B1597)633309 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789633865828 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/91673 035 $a(OCoLC)1338643869 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_100052 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924297116300041 100 $a20220804d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Triumph of Uncertainty $eScience and Self in the Postmodern Age /$fAlfred I. Tauber, author 205 $a1st edition. 210 $cCentral European University Press$d2022 210 1$aBudapest :$cCentral European University Press,$d2022. 210 4$dİ2022. 215 $a1 online resource (406 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint version: Tauber, Alfred I. The Triumph of Uncertainty Budapest : Central European University Press,c2022 9789633865965 327 $tFrontmatter --$tTable of Contents --$tForeword --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Beginnings --$tChapter 2. On Ways of Knowing --$tChapter 3. Transitions --$tChapter 4. Rewriting Immunology --$tChapter 5. The Immune Self --$tChapter 6. Systems Philosophically Considered --$tChapter 7. Pursuing the Enigmatic Self --$tChapter 8. Rethinking Science --$tChapter 9. Outline of a Post-Positivist Philosophy of Science --$tChapter 10. A New Agenda --$tChapter 11. Personalizing Science --$tChapter 12. Moral Epistemology --$tChapter 13. Requiem for the Ego --$tChapter 14. Identity Reconsidered --$tConclusion --$tAppendix -- The Modernist Self --$tAcknowledgements --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aTauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science's - and his own personal - quest for explanatory certainty. During the 20th century, that goal was displaced by the probabilistic epistemologies required to characterize complex systems, whether in physics, biology, economics, or the social sciences. This "triumph of uncertainty" is the inevitable outcome of irreducible chance and indeterminate causality. And beyond these epistemological limits, the interpretative faculties of the individual scientist (what Michael Polanyi called the "personal" and the "tacit") invariably affects how data are understood. Whereas positivism had claimed radical objectivity, post-positivists have identified how a web of non-epistemic values and social forces profoundly influence the production of knowledge. Tauber presents a case study of these claims by showing how immunology has incorporated extra-curricular social elements in its theoretical development and how these in turn have influenced interpretive problems swirling around biological identity, individuality, and cognition. The correspondence between contemporary immunology and cultural notions of selfhood are strong and striking. Just as uncertainty haunts science, so too does it hover over current constructions of personal identity, self knowledge, and moral agency. Across the chasm of uncertainty, science and selfhood speak. 606 $aScience and civilization 606 $aScience$vPhilosophy 606 $aScience$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aImmunology. 610 $aPersonal identity. 610 $aPositivism. 610 $aPostmodernism. 615 0$aScience and civilization. 615 0$aScience 615 0$aScience$xHistory 676 $a501 686 $aBIO009000$aMED044000$2bisacsh 700 $aTauber$b Alfred I.$052944 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996487164203316 996 $aThe Triumph of Uncertainty$92904161 997 $aUNISA