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The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age /

Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science's - and his own personal - quest...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tauber, Alfred I. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Gilbert, Scott F. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Table of Contents --   |t Foreword --   |t Preface --   |t Introduction --   |t Chapter 1. Beginnings --   |t Chapter 2. On Ways of Knowing --   |t Chapter 3. Transitions --   |t Chapter 4. Rewriting Immunology --   |t Chapter 5. The Immune Self --   |t Chapter 6. Systems Philosophically Considered --   |t Chapter 7. Pursuing the Enigmatic Self --   |t Chapter 8. Rethinking Science --   |t Chapter 9. Outline of a Post-Positivist Philosophy of Science --   |t Chapter 10. A New Agenda --   |t Chapter 11. Personalizing Science --   |t Chapter 12. Moral Epistemology --   |t Chapter 13. Requiem for the Ego --   |t Chapter 14. Identity Reconsidered --   |t Conclusion --   |t Appendix-The Modernist Self --   |t Acknowledgements --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science's - and his own personal - quest for explanatory certainty. During the 20th century, that goal was displaced by the probabilistic epistemologies required to characterize complex systems, whether in physics, biology, economics, or the social sciences. This "triumph of uncertainty" is the inevitable outcome of irreducible chance and indeterminate causality. And beyond these epistemological limits, the interpretative faculties of the individual scientist (what Michael Polanyi called the "personal" and the "tacit") invariably affects how data are understood. Whereas positivism had claimed radical objectivity, post-positivists have identified how a web of non-epistemic values and social forces profoundly influence the production of knowledge. Tauber presents a case study of these claims by showing how immunology has incorporated extra-curricular social elements in its theoretical development and how these in turn have influenced interpretive problems swirling around biological identity, individuality, and cognition. The correspondence between contemporary immunology and cultural notions of selfhood are strong and striking. Just as uncertainty haunts science, so too does it hover over current constructions of personal identity, self knowledge, and moral agency. Across the chasm of uncertainty, science and selfhood speak. 
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653 |a Immunology. 
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