Scientism and Its Discontents

Authors

Susan Haack, University of Miami School of LawFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

The achievements of the sciences deserve our respect, even our admiration; but, like all human enterprises, the sciences are fallible, imperfect, stumbling, and susceptible to corruption. These days, anti-scientific cynicism seems to be waning; but scientism, the opposite extreme, is flourishing—in public-policy debates, in the legal system, in education, and in philosophy. In Scientism and its Discontents Haack shows that this new scientism is no less confused, and no less damaging to our intellectual culture, than the older cynicism.

Notes

This work is based on Professor Haack's September 2016 Agnes Cuming Lectures at University College, Dublin.

Publisher Information

Rounded Globe

Recommended Citation

Susan Haack, Scientism and Its Discontents (2017).