Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy
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Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy

How Society Shapes Brains, Gods, Maths, and Logics

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Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy

How Society Shapes Brains, Gods, Maths, and Logics

About this book

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 separate from scientific knowledge and its applications. These ideas are reinforced by cultural myths about free will and individualism.Restivo makes a compelling case for a synchronistic approach in the study of these notoriously 'hard' cases, arguing that their significance reaches far beyond the realms of science and technology, and that their sociological and political ramifications are of paramount importance in our global society. This innovative work deals with perennial problems in the social sciences, philosophy, and the history of science and religion, and will be of special interest to professionals in these fields, as well as scholars of science and technology studies.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781349951598
eBook ISBN
9781349951604
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy
  2. 1 Prologue
  3. 2 The Science of Society
  4. 3 What About the Gene and What About the Brain?
  5. 4 The Social Lives of Minds and Brains
  6. 5 Thinking Machines: Flesh and Metal, Metal and Flesh
  7. 6 God and Society: Emile Durkheim and the Rejection of Transcendence
  8. 7 The Social Construction of Mathematics
  9. 8 What Can a Sociologist Say about Logic?
  10. 9 Conclusion: The Liminal Context
  11. Appendix 1€ Moments in the History of the Science of Society
  12. Appendix 2€ Modeling the Social Brain: Updated Version of the Restivo-Weiss Model of the Social Brain
  13. Index