The Limits of Science
Will be published approx. on 15. March 2000
Book
Hardback
X, 177 pages
978-0-8204-4537-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Limits of Science provides a clear and concise account of how scientists explain the reality we live in. The author presents a vivid and balanced picture of both the natural and social sciences by stressing science's uncertainties and failures as well as its tremendous achievements in our modern age.
Ernest Krausz conveys a strong message in The Limits of Science: science is not the «know-all» that it is often imagined to be. Scientists constantly arrive at the same limits of ultimately hidden causes and unanswered questions. Science does not provide answers even to basic questions such as how mass is generated or how living organisms originated, and it does not provide a proper understanding of human consciousness. Highlighting the «limits» of science, this book adds new perspectives to our ideas and beliefs about the world.
Ernest Krausz conveys a strong message in The Limits of Science: science is not the «know-all» that it is often imagined to be. Scientists constantly arrive at the same limits of ultimately hidden causes and unanswered questions. Science does not provide answers even to basic questions such as how mass is generated or how living organisms originated, and it does not provide a proper understanding of human consciousness. Highlighting the «limits» of science, this book adds new perspectives to our ideas and beliefs about the world.
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Person
The Author: Ernest Krausz received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He was Reader in the Department of Social Science and Humanities at the City University, London, and is currently Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he also served as Rector of the University. He is a member of the Israel Science Foundation and of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published widely in the social sciences and, in recent years, in the philosophy of science.