SCIENCE features a report written in the persona of a Martian anthropologist who systematically compares religious and scientific institutions on Earth, only to find that science does not necessarily live up to its own ideals of rationality, thereby risking its purpose by the role it increasingly plays in the maintenance of social and economic order.
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About the Author:
Steve Fuller, trained in the history and philosophy of science, is now the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
Review:
"An interesting book with some thought-provoking insights." CHOICE
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- PublisherUniv of Minnesota Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0816631247
- ISBN 13 9780816631247
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages159
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