Dupre's book is original, lucid and confident, without being
eccentric, polemical or arrogant. It deserves close
attention...Dupre insists that there is no general scientific
method, process, or attitude...He pins down the notion of the unity
of science as a form of scientism appropriate only to a Utopia or
to totalitarianism. He notes that 'paradoxically, with the disunity
of science comes a kind of unity of knowledge.' That is why, to my
mind, this is just the kind of philosophical teaching that is
needed to close the gap between the two cultures. -- John Ziman
"Nature"
The thesis of 'disorder' has revolutionary implications for the
practice of science...[This book] should be read by every student
of the subject as an antidote to current philosophical correctness,
and it should indeed suggest to professionals that many of the
fashionable empires of analytic philosophy as well as philosophy of
science are not well-clothed. -- Mary Hesse "International Studies
in the History and Philosophy of Science"
Dupr& eacute; 's book is original, lucid and confident, without
being eccentric, polemical or arrogant. It deserves close
attention...Dupr& eacute; insists that there is no general
scientific method, process, or attitude...He pins down the notion
of the unity of science as a form of scientism appropriate only to
a Utopia or to totalitarianism. He notes that 'paradoxically, with
the disunity of science comes a kind of unity of knowledge.' That
is why, to my mind, this is just the kind of philosophical teaching
that is needed to close the gap between the two cultures.
Dupré 's book is original, lucid and confident, without being
eccentric, polemical or arrogant. It deserves close
attention...Dupré insists that there is no general scientific
method, process, or attitude...He pins down the notion of the unity
of science as a form of scientism appropriate only to a Utopia or
to totalitarianism. He notes that 'paradoxically, with the disunity
of science comes a kind of unity of knowledge.' That is why, to my
mind, this is just the kind of philosophical teaching that is
needed to close the gap between the two cultures. -- John Ziman
"Nature"
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