
Science as a Quest for Truth
The Interpretation Lab
Bengt Kristensson Uggla(Author)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published on 8. January 2024
Book
Hardback
366 pages
978-1-5275-3445-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a unified theory of science by challenging some of the lingering myths and anachronisms associated with our understanding of what it means to be scientific. The book presents a new science narrative focused on the dialectics of discovering/inventing new worlds in an age of hermeneutics, and as an alternative to the prevailing view of the history of science as, largely, a confrontation between science and religion. It argues that the development of modern science is, in a complex way, intertwined with the history of the university, a knowledge institution that throughout the centuries has repeatedly managed to reinvent itself-so successfully, indeed, that it has paradoxically led to a fundamental crisis of identity today. The book suggests that, in order to recognize science as a quest for truth in a globalizing world of cognitive horizontalization, we need to transcend the false alternatives of objectivistic certitude (possessing "the Truth") and relativistic resignation ("post-truth") by means of a new focus on collegial practices.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5275-3445-2 (9781527534452)
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Person
Bengt Kristensson Uggla is the Amos Anderson Chair of Philosophy, Culture, and Management at Abo Akademi University, Finland. Since the 1990s, he has developed the field of cross-disciplinary hermeneutics, mainly inspired by the works of Paul Ricoeur, and is the author of fifteen books and numerous other publications across a wide field of disciplines in the human and social sciences, healthcare and management, among others. His publications in English include, Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization (2010), and the award-winning intellectual biography, Becoming Human Again: The Theological Life of Gustaf Wingren (2016).