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The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age / / Alfred I. Tauber, author



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Autore: Tauber Alfred I. Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age / / Alfred I. Tauber, author Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Central European University Press, 2022
Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2022
©2022
Edizione: 1st edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 pages)
Disciplina: 501
Soggetto topico: Science and civilization
Science
Science - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: History
Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: Autobiography
Immunology
Personal identity
Positivism
Postmodernism
Classificazione: BIO009000MED044000
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Beginnings -- Chapter 2. On Ways of Knowing -- Chapter 3. Transitions -- Chapter 4. Rewriting Immunology -- Chapter 5. The Immune Self -- Chapter 6. Systems Philosophically Considered -- Chapter 7. Pursuing the Enigmatic Self -- Chapter 8. Rethinking Science -- Chapter 9. Outline of a Post-Positivist Philosophy of Science -- Chapter 10. A New Agenda -- Chapter 11. Personalizing Science -- Chapter 12. Moral Epistemology -- Chapter 13. Requiem for the Ego -- Chapter 14. Identity Reconsidered -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- The Modernist Self -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Tauber, 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The Triumph of Uncertainty  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 963-386-582-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910585998703321
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