Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy How Society Shapes Bra
This book offers a unique analysis of how ideas about science and technology in the public and scientific imaginations (in particular about maths, logic, the gene, the brain, god, and robots) perpetuate the false reality that values and politics are separ
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Sal Restivo
Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy How Society Shapes Brains, Gods, Maths, and Logics
Sal Restivo Department of Technology, Culture and Society NYU Tandon School of Engineering Brooklyn, New York, USA
ISBN 978-1-349-95159-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95160-4
ISBN 978-1-349-95160-4 (eBook)
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A Note on the Bibliographical Epilogues
In one of my classes on the sociology of religion, a student asked my teaching assistant why she didn’t believe in God. She said: “Because I read books.” Every book is the apex of a structure of knowledge. The book is only as good, as trustworthy, as worthy of the intelligent reader’s time as the structure of knowledge it is based on. Structures of knowledge are never consistent, coherent, and free of ignorance and superstition. But some, and therefore some books, are better guides to how things work than others. To be educated is to know, but not to know absolutely, how to separate on an ever-increasing learning curve and with improving degrees of confidence the wheat of grounded knowledge (including educated guesses and reasoned speculations) from the chaff of ignorance, charlatanism, lies, and superstition. The books I list here are at the apexes of structures of knowledge that speak through the book in your hands
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