Scientism and Values -

Helmut Schoeck, James W. Wiggins

D. Van Nostrand Company

1960

270 páginas

9h 0m

ISBN-10: 0405004362

This anthology contains papers by 12 scholars from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. the major target of their criticism is "scientism," understood as the attempted use of certain natural science methods and techniques in areas that the present critics regard as inappropriate. in his introduction, schoeck says: "scientism implies a "cynical" world view-in the original meaning of the word: it is a "doglike" view of man, or shall we say "ratlike"?" reductive views of man, behaviorism, and positivism are strongly opposed. some of the authors see scientism as related to collectivism and the elevation of social "engineers."