Scientism The New Orthodoxy [Hardcover]

Scientism: The New Orthodoxyis a comprehensive philosophical overview of the question of scientism, discussing the role and place of science in the humanities, religion, and the social sciences.

Clarifying and defining the key terms in play in discussions of scientism, this collection identifies the dimensions that differentiate science from scientism. Leading scholars appraise the means available to science, covering the impact of the neurosciences and the new challenges it presents for the law and the self. Illustrating the effect of scientism on the social sciences, and the humanities,Scientism: the New Orthodoxyaddresses what science is and what it is not. This provocative collection is an important contribution to the social sciences and the humanities in the 21st century.

Contributors include: Peter Hacker, Bastiaan van Fraassen, Daniel N. Robinson, Kenneth Schaffner, Roger Scruton, James K.A. Smith, Richard Swinburne, Lawrence Principe and Richard N. Williams.

Scientism: The New Orthodoxyis a rich and rewarding collection of essays from a wide range of perspectives. I can easily envision parts of it being taught - perhaps alongside more fundamental work in the philosophy of science and epistemology - in upper-level undergraduate or graduate seminars that want to engage contemporary intellectual life and the relations between science and philosophy. Notre Dame Philosophical Review

Scientism is an over reliance on or overconfidence in the sciences as the only route to reliable knowledge. It is motivated by successful and effective technological outcomes that suggest scientific methods are a great, if not the best, source of knowledge for addressing any and all problems & This eclectic volume, which varies widely in style and scope, includes historical perspectives on scientism, religion, culture, and the humanities; critical assessments of cognitive neuroscience and neuroethics; and reflections onl³%