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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Level-headed Perspective on Science,
This review is from: On Science (Thinking in Action) (Hardcover)
Ridley has a keen sense of the role, strengths, and limits of science as a branch of human knowledge. This work circumscribes science and seeks to be a contribution towards shedding some megalomaniacal ambitions of scientism, which in the tradition of Comte, raises science to the highest order of knowledge. He accomplishes this on many levels--explaining what the grand Theory of Everything that physicists dream exactly would constitute [not much really, just a mapping out of atomic particles, not the meaning of existence], discussing the relation of magic and science, examining the meta-science [basically, epistemology] that undergirds and makes possible empirical science qua science as usually understood, and the relation of science to life's mysteries, such as the mind, art, and morality. Ridley shows a good knowledge of both his own scientific discipline [Physics] and contemporary philosophy and integerates the two well, a rare quality. |
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On Science (Thinking in Action) by B. K. Ridley (Paperback - May 25, 2001)
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