COPING WITH SCIENCE. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Böhme, Gernot
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The End of the Baconian Age; Bacon's Conviction and Bacon's Program; The 1970s and the Finalization of Science; The Situation Today; How Are Things to Proceed?; Notes; 2 What Makes Us Feel We Need a Theory of Science?; A Note on Terminology; Notes; 3 The Formation of the Scientific Object; Notes; 4 Can Science Reach Truth?; Notes; 5 Science and Other Types of Knowledge; Science and Democracy; Professionalization and Scientification; Differences Between Types of Knowledge; Summary; Notes; Bibliography 6 Science for War and PeaceUseful Science; Historical Change as a Result of the Atomic Bomb?; Science in Resistance; The Scientization of War and the Militarization of Science; War Research as an Institution; Is a Reversal of the Situation Possible?; Peace Research; The Asymmetry of War and Peace; The Idea of a Peaceful Science; Notes; Bibliography; 7 The Technological Civilization; The Relation of Man to Himself; Social Relations; Technical Civilization and Culture; Notes; 8 The Knowledge-Structure of Society; Conclusion; Notes; 9 An End to Progress?; The End of the Future? The Concept of ProgressProgress in Science; An End to Progress by Science and Technology?; Notes; About the Book and Author; Index
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : ROUTLEDGE
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume.)
• Subjects: 303.483; Science -- Social aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429033964; 0429033966; 9780429699177; 0429699174; 9780429719189; 0429719183; 9780429739194; 0429739192
• Related ISBNs: 0367004100; 9780367004101
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.