Defending Science -- Within Reason : Between Scientism and Cynicism

Authors

Susan Haack, University of Miami School of LawFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2003

Abstract

This wide-ranging, trenchant, and illuminating book explores the complexities of scientific evidence, and the multifarious ways in which the sciences have refined and amplified the methods of everyday empirical inquiry; articulates the ways in which the social sciences are like the natural sciences, and the ways in which they are different; disentangles the confusions of radical rhetoricians and cynical sociologists of science; exposes the evasions of apologists for religious resistance to scientific advances; weighs the benefits and the dangers of technology; tracks the efforts of the legal system to make the best use of scientific testimony; and tackles predictions of the eventual culmination, or annihilation, of the scientific enterprise.

ISBN

1591021170

Publisher Information

Prometheus Books

Recommended Citation

Susan Haack, Defending Science -- Within Reason : Between Scientism and Cynicism (2003).