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Introducing Philosophy of Science
A Graphic Guide
Ziauddin Sardar, Borin Van Loon
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Introducing Philosophy of Science
A Graphic Guide
Ziauddin Sardar, Borin Van Loon
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What do scientists actually do? Is science "value-free"? How has science evolved through history? Where is science leading us? "Introducing Philosophy of Science" is a clear and incisively illustrated map of the big questions underpinning science. It is essential reading for students, the general public, and even scientists themselves.
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Filosofia ed etica nella scienzaThe Nature of the Beast
Our world is shaped and driven by science. Almost every benefit of modern life – from antibiotics to computers, our understanding of human evolution to our ability to land a satellite on Saturn – is a product of science. For most people, progress is simply another term for advances in scientific knowledge and benefits derived from new discoveries of science.
Is Science “Absolute Objectivity”?
Until quite recently, Western tradition saw science as the quest for objective knowledge of nature and reality. Scientists were regarded as quasi-religious supermen, heroically battling against all odds to discover the truth.
As one sociologist in the 1940s described it, science reflects the character of nature itself: “The stars have no sentiments, the atoms no anxieties which have to be taken into account. Observation is objective with little effort on the part of the scientist to make it so.”
Do We Trust Scientists?
But this picture of truth-loving and truth-seeking scientists working for the benefit of humanity is rather at odds with the public conception of science and scientists. Most people are not “anti-science”. We recognize the potential that science has for making our lives healthier and easier.
The view of the scientists we find in popular literature and film is even more scathing.
Dr Henry Frankenstein of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is not the monster, but …
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Jekyll is a restless young scientist who discovers a concoction that turns him into his alter ego …
In H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), a scientist develops mutant life-forms that live in pain and misery …
In the classic film Dr Strangelove (1964), the title character, played by Peter Sellers, is a paraplegic Nazi scientist …
The Boys from Brazil (1978) shows scientists as evil Nazis hell-bent on recreating a race of Hitlers.
In Batman and Robin (1997), both villains are scientists:
Why do the popular perceptions of science and scientists differ so radically from the scientists’ own self-image as brilliant pioneers deserving of admiration, funding and blind trust? Perhaps because, apart from bringing benefits, science has also posed serious threats to humanity.
The by-products of science, such as nuclear waste and chemical pollution, are destroying ecosystems on local, regional and global scales. So, science brings us benefits as well as costs. Perhaps it was in an effort to present a more deflated image of science that the Nobel Prize physicist Lord Rutherford (1871–1937) said:
What Do Scientists Actually Do?
Here are some examples of the negative things that scientists actually do, as reported by the media.
The Indep...