Monopolizing knowledge: a scientist refutes religion-denying, reason-destroying scientism
Can real knowledge be found other than by science? In this unique approach to understanding today's culture wars, an MIT physicist answers emphatically yes. He shows how scientism--the view that science is all the real knowledge there is--suffocates reason as well as religion. Tracing the histo...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Can real knowledge be found other than by science? In this unique approach to understanding today's culture wars, an MIT physicist answers emphatically yes. He shows how scientism--the view that science is all the real knowledge there is--suffocates reason as well as religion. Tracing the history of scientism and its frequent confusion with science, Hutchinson explains what makes modern science so persuasive and powerful, but restricts its scope. Recognizing science's limitations, and properly identifying what we call nature, liberates both science and non-scientific knowledge. The error of scientism is responsible for much of the modern suspicion of science. And it underlies most of the militants atheist arguments against religion. Even though scientism is not proved by science, and as formal philosophy is largely discredited, the worldview still remains highly influential today. Often its presumptions are tacitly held by both sides of the culture wars, leading to irreconcilable confrontation. Rejecting scientism enables a principled intellectual reconciliation with religious faith, and with the rest of knowledge |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244) and index Science and scientism -- Reproducibility -- Clarity -- Demarcation -- Evolutionary explanation -- The case for scientism -- Denying science -- The technological fix -- Scientism and religion -- Integrating knowledge |
| Beschreibung: | ix, 261 p. ill., ports. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780983702306 |
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Contents
v
1 Science and
scientism
1
1.1
Introduction
....................... 1
1.2 Science,
what do we mean by it?
........... 4
1.3
The Scientific Revolution
................ 16
1.4
Characteristics of science
................ 20
2
Reproducibility
25
2.1
The meaning of experiment
.............. 26
2.2
Is reproducibility essential?
.............. 33
2.3
Inherent limitations of reproducibility
........ 44
3
Clarity
49
3.1
Measurement
...................... 50
3.2
Beyond Clarity
..................... 54
3.3
Reductionism and abstraction
............. 58
3.4
Purpose
.......................... 67
4
Demarcation
73
4.1
The HPS discipline
................... 73
4.2
Scientism,
sociology and socialism
.......... 75
4.3
Scientific method and demarcation
.......... 80
4.4
Demarcation disputes
................. 89
4.5
A more modest characterization
............ 91
5
Evolutionary explanation
95
5.1
Explanation in physical science
............ 95
5.2
Evolutionary fact
.................... 96
5.3
Natural Law and Natural History
........... 99
5.4
Evolution as world-view
................ 103
5.5
Natural prehistory
................... 107
5.6
The clash of world-views
................ 109
5.7
Social consequences
................... 115
vi
CONTENTS
6
The case for
scientism
129
6.1
Explicit
scientism
and its warrant
........... 129
6.2
Critical evaluation
................... . 134
7
Denying science
145
7.1
Outgrowing the Enlightenment
............ 145
7.2
Shattering The Mirror of Nature
............ 155
7.3
Freeing the oppressed
................. 161
7.4
Gathering the threads
.................. 166
8
The Technological Fix
169
8.1
Science and technology
................. 169
8.2
Technological critiques
................. 171
8.3
Energy and environment
................ 176
9
Scientism
and religion
183
9.1
Militant atheism
..................... 183
9.2
Rocks of Ages: A niche for religion
.......... 202
9.3
Behind the mythology
................. 207
9.4
Mutual support
..................... 216
9.5
True contradiction
.................... 222
10
Integrating knowledge
227
10.1
The Christian and science
............... 227
10.2
Levels and perspectives
................ 228
10.3
The place of faith
.................... 233
Bibliography
237
Notes
245
Index
255
Can real knowledge be found other than by science?
In this unique approach to understanding today s culture
wars, an MIT physicist answers emphatically yes. He shows
how
scientism
—
the view that science is all the knowledge
there is
—
suffocates reason as well as religion.
Tracing the history of
scientism
and its frequent confusion
with science, Hutchinson explains what makes modern sci¬
ence so persuasive and powerful, but restricts its scope. He
shows how a proper recognition of science s scope, and a
proper identification of what we call nature, makes sense of
both science and non-scientific knowledge like history, law,
politics, philosophy, sociology, and religion. Recognizing sci¬
ence s limitations, and properly identifying what we call na¬
ture, liberates both science and non-scientific knowledge.
The error of
scientism
is responsible for much of the modern
suspicion of science. And it underlies most of the militant
atheist arguments against religion. Even though
scientism
is
not proved by science, and as formal philosophy is largely dis¬
credited, the world-view still remains highly influential today.
Often, its presumptions are tacitly held by both sides of the
culture wars, leading to irreconcilable confrontation. Reject¬
ing
scientism
enables a principled intellectual reconciliation of
science with religious faith, and with the rest of knowledge.
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