Science, politics and social practice

Springer

2011

1 volume

Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; 164

9789048144372

A: Relations of Marxism to Science and Philosophy. On Bob Cohen; H. Aptheker. Love and Hate: Learning `Human Nature' under Communism; Lin Chun. Marxist Philosophy and Humanism in Mainland China -- An Outline; Dainian Fan. Cohen's Carnap, or Subjectivity is in the Eye of the Beholder; B. Dreben. Stalinism and Soviet Science; W. Krajewski. Herbert Marcuse on Real Existing Socialism: A Hindsight Look at Soviet Marxism; P. Marcuse. Marx on Science and Capitalism; J. Stachel. Karl Popper and Karl Marx; Ren-Zong Qui. B: Science, Technology and Society. Technological Praxis: Reflections; P. Durbin. Science, Society and the Expanding Boundaries of Moral Discourse; S. Krimsky. The Concept of Scientific Law; M. Markovic. After the `System': Philosophy in the Age of the Sciences; G. Markus. Civil Society and the Politisation of Needs; M. Markus. C: Methodological, Ontological and Phenomenological Issues in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Cybernetics and Social Entities; A. Shimony. Risk Models and Geological Judgments: The Case of Yucca Mountain; K. Shrader-Frechette. Some Reflections on Inequality and Class Structure; D. Wedderburn. From `Dualism of Human Nature' to `Human Being as a Mixed Phenomenon'; K.H. Wolff. The Tragedy of Political Science; D. Zolo. D: Culture, Reason and Ethics. Reasoning in the Social World: Prolegomenon to a Sociology of Argument; R. Edmondson. Rhetoric and Ethics: Adam Smith on Theorizing about the Moral Sentiments; C.L. Griswold. Ecofeminism as Reconstruction: Making Peace with Nature; P. Hallen. On Cultural Relativism and `Radical Doubt'; D. Zilberman. From the Quaestiones to the Essais: On the Autonomy and Methods of the History of Philosophy; P. Zambelli. Index.

The essays in this Festschrift are celebrations of the human mind in its manifold expressions - philosophical, scientific, historical, aesthetic, political - and in its various modes - analytical, systematic, critical, imaginative, constructive.

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