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Science and culture

Joseph Agassi

Abstract

In Science and Culture, Joseph Agassi addresses scientism and relativism, two false philosophies that divorce science from culture in general and from tradition in particular. According to Agassi, science is an integral part of culture, and both scientism and relativism ignore the cultural value of science. This work helps break the isolation of science from the rest of culture by promoting popular science and reasonable history of science. Agassi provides examples of the value of science to culture at large, discussions of items of the general culture and their interactions with science, and practical strategies and tools. He offers a wide variety of case studies to exemplify these. In this book Agassi puts significant topics such as autonomy, tolerance, reason, philosophy and responsibility on the agenda of democratic philosophy today.

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Joseph Agassi

pp.3-6

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_1
The consolations of science Joseph Agassi

pp.7-23

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_2
The moral base of science, or, the architectonic of open-ended reason Joseph Agassi

pp.24-36

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_3
The theory and practice of critical rationalism Joseph Agassi

pp.37-47

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_4
Science as training for autonomy Joseph Agassi

pp.48-56

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_5
Science and the call of the wild Joseph Agassi

pp.57-71

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_6
Science and controversy Joseph Agassi

pp.72-79

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_7
Faith in the open society

the end of hermeneutics

Joseph Agassi

pp.83-96

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_8
The functions of intellectual rubbish Joseph Agassi

pp.97-112

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_9
Science and the interpersonal Joseph Agassi

pp.113-125

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_10
Science and pluralism Joseph Agassi

pp.126-139

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_11
Wild goose chase Joseph Agassi

pp.140-151

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_12
Science and its public relations Joseph Agassi

pp.152-163

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_13
Irrationalism today Joseph Agassi

pp.164-177

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_14
Minimal criteria for intellectual progress Joseph Agassi

pp.181-195

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_15
Bloodletting Joseph Agassi

pp.196-203

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_16
The critique of linearity Joseph Agassi

pp.204-212

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_17
Science, politics and objectivity Joseph Agassi

pp.213-220

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_18
Science and the detective novel Joseph Agassi

pp.221-231

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_19
The two books Joseph Agassi

pp.232-238

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_20
Science and technology Joseph Agassi

pp.239-248

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_21
Science and philosophy Joseph Agassi

pp.251-259

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_22
Progress in science and in art Joseph Agassi

pp.260-269

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_23
Technology as both science and art Joseph Agassi

pp.270-278

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_24
Artificial intelligence Joseph Agassi

pp.279-293

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_25
Philosophy without science Joseph Agassi

pp.294-305

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_26
Science and art Joseph Agassi

pp.306-318

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_27
The inner world Joseph Agassi

pp.319-326

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_28
Validation Joseph Agassi

pp.329-343

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_29
The politics of science Joseph Agassi

pp.344-358

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_30
Science as a public enterprise Joseph Agassi

pp.359-371

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_31
Science, and Commonsense Joseph Agassi

pp.372-375

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_32
Rationalizing politics Joseph Agassi

pp.376-388

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_33
The siblinghood of humanity Joseph Agassi

pp.389-396

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_34
For public responsibility for spaceship earth Joseph Agassi

pp.397-403

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_35

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2003

Pages: 416

Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science

Series volume: 231

ISBN (hardback): 978-90-481-6234-5

ISBN (digital): 978-94-017-2946-8

Full citation:

Agassi Joseph (2003) Science and culture. Dordrecht, Springer.