Scientism

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• gnosis · Dec 8, 2012 · Recommends

  …required reading for anyone who thinks science is or should be the only legitimate way of understanding the world. For more information, I strongly recommend: "Naturalism and the Human Condition: Against scientism" by Frederick A. Olafson and "Scientism" by Tom Sorell

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• pmoriarty · Apr 17, 2018 · Recommends

  …Wikipedia (which is pretty awful at philosophy), or the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (which is much better, but is very heavily slanted towards the Analytic perspective) and see: Tom Sorell's "Scientism": https://www.amazon.com/Scientism-Philosophy-Infatuation-Scie...

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• gnosis · Dec 9, 2012 · Mentions

  …And, while not dealing directly with science, I think Foucault's critiques of power in discourse are very relevant. Earlier in this thread I'd mentioned: "Naturalism and the Human Condition: Against scientism" by Frederick A. Olafson, whose critique comes from a phenomenological perspective. and "Scientism" by Tom Sorell, who's a neo-Kantian. None of the above are postmodernists.

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