| The Critique of Scientific Reason Revised Edition Contributor(s): Hübner, Kurt (Author), Dixon Jr, Paul R. (Translator), Dixon, Hollis M. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0226357090 ISBN-13: 9780226357096 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $25.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1988 Annotation: Critique of Scientific Reason uses an extensive and detailed investigation of physics - and in particular of Einstein's theory of relativity - to argue that the positivistic notion of rationality is not only wrongheaded but false. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects |
| Dewey: 501 |
| LCCN: 82023690 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.89" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 291 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A systematic critique of the notion that natural science is the sovereign domain of truth, Critique of Scientific Reason uses an extensive and detailed investigation of physics--and in particular of Einstein's theory of relativity--to argue that the positivistic notion of rationality is not only wrongheaded but false. Kurt H bner contends that positivism ignores both the historical dimension of science and the basic structures common to scientific theory, myth, and so-called subjective symbolic systems. Moreover, H bner argues, positivism has led in our time to a widespread disillusionment with science and technology. |