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- catalog abstract ""Science and the Self offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between science, a specific type of knowledge, and the other types of knowledge which are part of life. Those who practice science typically insist that it is objective; opposing them, emphasizing science's subjective qualities, are philosophers such as Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Foucault. In his new book, Bruce Fleming seeks to explain how a person may reasonably hold to either view." "Offering an alternative to Robert Nozick's relativism, Fleming argues that the world is indeed objective. However, it is so only because - and to the extent that - we subjective humans banish from scientific language the vast quantity of things which cannot be expressed in its terms. That is to say, most of daily life is composed of situational knowledge, which, unlike the scientific knowledge we may distill from it, is tied to the specific moment and place it arises in. Science and the Self offers a view of self in the world, the nature of belief, and whether miracles are possible."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13241472.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Science and the Self offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between science, a specific type of knowledge, and the other types of knowledge which are part of life. Those who practice science typically insist that it is objective; opposing them, emphasizing science's subjective qualities, are philosophers such as Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Foucault. In his new book, Bruce Fleming seeks to explain how a person may reasonably hold to either view." "Offering an alternative to Robert Nozick's relativism, Fleming argues that the world is indeed objective. However, it is so only because - and to the extent that - we subjective humans banish from scientific language the vast quantity of things which cannot be expressed in its terms. That is to say, most of daily life is composed of situational knowledge, which, unlike the scientific knowledge we may distill from it, is tied to the specific moment and place it arises in. Science and the Self offers a view of self in the world, the nature of belief, and whether miracles are possible."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1 Sketch of the scale of knowledge 1 Ch. 2 Situational knowledge 37 Ch. 3 Science and the objective world 71 Ch. 4 Living in error 93 Ch. 5 Expectation 131 Ch. 6 Learning and teaching.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-172) and index.".
- catalog extent "178 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0761828443".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Dallas : University Press of America,".
- catalog subject "121 22".
- catalog subject "BD220 .F54 2004".
- catalog subject "Knowledge, Theory of.".
- catalog subject "Objectivity.".
- catalog subject "Subjectivity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1 Sketch of the scale of knowledge 1 Ch. 2 Situational knowledge 37 Ch. 3 Science and the objective world 71 Ch. 4 Living in error 93 Ch. 5 Expectation 131 Ch. 6 Learning and teaching.".
- catalog title "Science and the self : the scale of knowledge / Bruce Fleming.".
- catalog type "text".