The limits of science : an analysis from "barriers" to "confines" /

The problem of the limits of science is twofold. First, there is the problem of demarcation, id est, the boundaries or "barriers" between what is science and what is not science. Second, there is the problem of the ceiling of scientific activity, which leads to the "confines" of...

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Other Authors: González, Wenceslao J.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2016.

Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 109.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.

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Call Number: Q175

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
  • Rethinking the Limits of Science: From the Difficulties Regarding the Frontiers to the Concern about the Confines /
  • Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
  • The Uncertain Frontier between Scientific Theories and Metaphysical Research Programmes /
  • Juan Arana
  • Cognitive Problems and Practical Limits: Computers and Our Limitations /
  • Nicholas Rescher
  • Language and the Limits of Science /
  • Ladislav Kvasz
  • Ethical Limits of Science, Especially Economics /
  • Gereon Wolters
  • Predicting and Knowability: The Problem of Future Knowledge /
  • Nicholas Rescher
  • The Limits of Future Knowledge: An Analysis of Nicholas Rescher's Epistemological Approach /
  • Amanda Guillan
  • The Limits of Information Science /
  • Antonio Bereijo
  • Rescher and Gadamer: Two Complementary Views of the Limits of Sciences /
  • Alfredo Marcos
  • The Obstacles to Scientific Prediction: An Analysis of the Limits of Predictability from the Ontology of Science /
  • Amanda Guillan
  • Index of Names /
  • Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
  • Subject Index /
  • Wenceslao J. Gonzalez.