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Title
Science between truth and ethical responsibility [electronic resource] : Evandro Agazzi in the contemporary scientific and philosophical debate / Mario Alai, Marco Buzzoni, Gino Tarozzi, editors.
ISBN
9783319163697 electronic book
3319163698 electronic book
9783319163680
Published
Cham : Springer, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 337 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-16369-7 doi
Call Number
Q175
Dewey Decimal Classification
501
Summary
This book offers the most complete and up-to-date overview of the philosophical work of Evandro Agazzi, presently the most important Italian philosopher of science, and one of the most influential in the world. Scholars from seven countries explore his contributions in areas ranging from philosophy of physics and general philosophy of science to bioethics, philosophy of mathematics and logic, epistemology of the social sciences and history of science, philosophy of language and artificial intelligence, education and anthropology, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. Agazzi developed a complete and coherent philosophical system, anticipating some of the turns in the philosophy of science after the crisis of logical empiricism and exerting an equal influence on continental hermeneutic philosophy. His work is characterized by an original synthesis of contemporary analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and classical philosophy, including the scholastic tradition, and these threads are reflected in the different backgrounds of the contributors to this book. While upholding the epistemological value of science against scepticism and relativism, Agazzi eschews scientism by stressing the equal importance of non-scientific forms of thought, such as metaphysics and religion. While defending the freedom of research as a cognitive enterprise, he argues that as a human and social practice it must nonetheless respect ethical constraints.
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Includes bibliographical references and author index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 6, 2015).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783319163680
An overview of Agazzi{u2019}s work
Scientific objectivity
Philosophy of physics
Philosophical anthropology
Science and operationality
Science and historicity
The issue of scientific realism
Artificial intelligence
Metaphysics and ontology
Education The contribution to Latin American philosophy
Epistemology and history of science
History of Science and technology
Epistemology of psychology
Science and hermeneutics
A perspectivist conception of scientific theories
Ethics of science and technology
Bioethics Philosophy of the social sciences
Science and religion
The Issue of alethic logic Realism and scientific progress System{u2019}s theory and complexity
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of mathematics and logic
Logic and philosophy of logic Replies and reflections.
