Science at Century's End. Philosophical Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science

Carriet, Martin, Gerald J. Massey, and Laura Ruetsche, Eds.

ISBN 10: 082294121X / ISBN 13: 9780822941217

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2000

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xii + 385 pp. Rubber-stamped on front free endpaper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Science at Century's End. Philosophical Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082294121X
• ISBN 13: 9780822941217
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very good
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

To most laypersons and scientists, science and progress appear to go hand in hand, yet philosophers and historians of science have long questioned the inevitability of this pairing. As we take leave of a century acclaimed for scientific advances and progress, Science at Century's End, the eighth volume of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz Series in the Philosophy and History of Science, takes the reader to the heart of this important matter. Subtitled Philosophical Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science, this timely volume contains twenty penetrating essays by prominent philosophers and historians who explore and debate the limits of scientific inquiry and their presumed consequences for science in the 21st century.

About the Author

Martin Carrier studied phsyics and philosophy at the University of Munster, earning his Ph.D. in 1984. He has taught philosophy as an assistant professor at the University of Konstanz, as a full professor at the University of Heidelberg and, currently, at the University of Bielefeld. His areas of work are philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and history of science. He has published Mind, Brain, Behavior: The Mind-Body Problem and the Philosophy of Science, and The Completeness of Scientific Theories: On the Derivation of Empirical Indicators Within a Theoretical Framework: The Case of Physical Geometry. He has also edited, with Peter Machamer, a 1997 volume of the Pittsburgh-Konstanz series; Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science, and the Mind.

Gerald J. Massey is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1988 to 1997 he was director of the University of Pittsburgh's renowned Center for Philosophy of Science. For the past several years he has been investigating the philosophical implications of the sciences of animals in an effort to create a new field that he calls philosophical ethology. In 1997, German President Roman Herzog conferred on him the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) for his contributions to German-American Philosophy.

Laura Ruetsche joined the Philosophy Department of the University of Pittsburgh in 1996, and has been an associate director of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science since 1997. Her primary research interest is the philosophy of physics, particularly the interpretation of quantum theories.