10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCIENTISTIC»
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scientistic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
scientistic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cosmos and Transcendence: Breaking Through the Barrier of ...
In the present work, Wolfgang Smith presents an insider's critique of the scientific world-view based upon the sharp but often overlooked distinction between scientific truth and scientistic faith.
2
What Are Stem Cells?: Definitions at the Intersection of ...
I argue here that the stem cell debate occurs primarily in a scientistic idiom, but
other science-based controversies will have other languages play a major, or
dominant, role. Evolution is one situation where the debate is primarily framed ...
John Alexander Lynch, 2011
3
Science and the Myth of Progress
This holds especially in the case of fundamental physics; by the time a fact of
quantum theory, for instance, has been popularized, what remains is mainly a
scientistic notion. One could put it this way: As science evolves, its actual insights
...
4
Modern Challenges to Past Philosophy: Arguments and Responses
attacks of scientistic critics. Though Socrates eschewed philosophy of nature and
ontology, it has become sufficiently clear that a deep philosophy of value requires
grounding in an underlying philosophy dealing with nonnormative facts.
Thomas D. Sullivan, Russell Pannier, 2014
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Leadership in Science and Technology: A Reference Handbook
On the other hand, this puts them in greater tension with science in modern
societies. This is true even for the scientistic religious movements that have
arisen in the past two centuries, which seem in some ways to move closer to
science than ...
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Leadership in Science and Technology: A Reference Handbook
On the other hand, this puts them in greater tension with science in modern
societies. This is true even for the scientistic religious movements that have
arisen in the past two centuries, which seem in some ways to move closer to
science than ...
William Sims Bainbridge, 2011
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The Limitations of Social Research
The. contribution. of. scientistic. research. Most bookson research methods
devote muchspaceto an attack on positivism, scientism, the attempt to apply the
methods of natural science to the study of human transactions. But the authors
usually ...
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A Theory of Moral Objectivity
I shall try to show in Part 2 that such a much more consistent account is still
possible, and that scientistic pessimism about its possibility is merely the product
of scientistic assumptions. Once the core assumption that science is
fundamentally ...
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The Concept of Freedom in the Writings of St. Francis de Sales
He states that 'authentic knowledge of a scientific kind refers necessarily to things
that are observable in some specified sense, and affirms a verifiable truth;
scientistic belief, on the other hand, is distinguished precisely by the absence of
these ...
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The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique
Purportedly, Freud's misunderstanding was "scientistic" because he idolatrously
endowed the clinical theory with natural science status by misextrapolation from
the metapsychology via the stated correlations. And furthermore, his view was ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCIENTISTIC»
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scientistic is used in the context of the following news items.
The Ghost in the Machine and Mass Mind Control
The power of these together must unfortunately also be combined with the completely pragmatic scientistic process exemplified in individuals referenced many ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jun 15»
EO Wilson on Scientism and the Meaning of Life
Assertion of scientism is usually accompanied by rather explicit denial of the relevance of ... The scientistic/positivist view is that what cannot be deduced or ... «Discovery Institute, Dec 14»
Across the Stars: A Review of "Interstellar"
Interstellar advocates a largely scientistic view, assuming that scientific ... Both of these people embrace a scientistic attitude but are ultimately viewed negatively ... «Catholic World Report, Nov 14»
Pagans and Christians
Palmer's secular and scientistic worldview, of course, is not the worldview of the classical world, which was far more inegalitarian and cruel than the ... «New York Times, Oct 14»
Lance Lazonby: Either-or mindset in evolution debate has negative …
It's hard to overstate the mess created by the distortions of both materialists/naturalists preaching a scientistic ideology (the material universe is "all there is" and ... «Gainesville Sun, May 14»
Illiberal 'Liberalism'
... the melding of attacks on traditional authority and middle-class morality, with the scientistic faith in technocratic elites that still characterizes modern liberalism. «FrontPage Magazine, May 14»
Evolutionary Biologist Jerry Coyne Goes All Scientistic
Several days ago, evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne wrote a post titled "Nature editor Henry Gee goes all anti-science." How did Gee go all anti-science? «Discovery Institute, Sep 13»
Rejecting Scientistic and Post-Religious Buddhism
In the final analysis, I think I believe the opposite of Ethan, and agree with Lama Jampa (with the caveat that I think scientism might be a better word to refer to ... «Patheos, Jul 13»
The Supreme Court's Gay-Marriage Gradualism
The intellectual architects and theorists behind the gay marriage movement are radicals with revolutionary scientistic intentions, namely to make heterosexuality ... «The American Conservative, Jun 13»
The Snowdens of Yesteryear
I am especially grateful for Heller's stressing — in a time when scientistic/philosophical materialism was already on the rise — that the human spirit is what is ... «National Review Online, Jun 13»
