Author(s): Steve Fuller
ISBN: 1844652041
ISBN-13: 9781844652044
Publication Date: 31/05/2010
Pages: 176 (216 x 138mm)
Format: PaperbackPublished
Price: £9.99
Discount Price: £7.99
DESCRIPTION:
If science enframes our lives, how should we relate to it? Steve Fuller’s lively and provocative book explores what it might mean to live “scientifically”. Can science give a sense of completeness to one’s life? Can it account for the entirety of what it is to be human? And does science add value to anything one does in life? In exploring these questions, Fuller argues that science is undergoing its own version of secularisation. It is not that people are coming to lose their faith in science per sebut rather they are losing the compulsion to conform to a specific orthodoxy that is upheld by a specially anointed class of “science priests”. We are, in a sense, all scientists now, says Fuller. Taking science into our own hands, we have become emboldened to affirm ideas and claims that conform to our own or our community’s experiences even if they go against the authorised experience of the laboratory.
AUTHOR BIO:
Introduction
1. The gospel according to Dr Strangelove
2. Can science live with its past?
3. Styles of living scientifically: a tale of three nations
4. We are all scientists now: the rise of protscience
5. The scientific ethic and the spirit of literalism
6. What has atheism – old or new – ever done for science?
7. Science as an instrument of divine justice
8. Scientific progress as secular providence
9. Science poised between changing the future and undoing the past
Guide to further reading
