This text examines the relations between science, technology and culture; introducing basic concepts in ethics, and in the philosophy of science and technology. Some of the issues raised include facts, values, efficiency, instrumental rationality, pure and applied science, culture, politics and moral responsibility. The authors reveal not only the ...
This volume offers a guided tour of modern mathematics' Garden of Eden, beginning with perspectives on the finite universe and classes and Aristotelian logic. Author Mary Tiles further examines permutations, combinations, and infinite cardinalities; numbering the continuum; Cantor's transfinite paradise; axiomatic set theory, and more. 1989 ...
As science has become increasingly more mathematical and as computers continue to infiltrate life in affluent societies, the philosopher's concern with mathematics has paradoxically, dwindled. It has come to be tacitly presumed that mathematics is nothing but logic. It is this perception of mathematics that the author wishes to dispel because it ...
Technology more than ever has become an established part of our everyday lives.Its sophistication offers us power beyond our human capacity which can either dazzle or threaten us. Living in a Technological Culture examines the relations between science, technology and culture; introducing basic concepts in ethics, and in the philosophy of science ...
This book introduces the issues of epistemology in their historical complexity by examining Francis Bacon's catalogue of the false sources of epistemic authority, the four idols. Successive chapters relate knowledge to language (idols of the market), speculation (idols of the theatre), perception (idols of the tribe) and social formations (idols ...
This is the first critically evaluative study of Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of science to be written in English. Bachelard's professional reputation was based on his philosophy of science, though that aspect of his thought has tended to be neglected by his English-speaking readers. Dr Tiles concentrates here on Bachelard's critique of ...
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