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The Crisis of Progress: Science, Society, and Values
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The Crisis of Progress: Science, Society, and Values Hardcover - 2016

by John C. Caiazza (Editor)


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This book is about the concept of progress, its separate varieties, its current rejection, and how it may be reconsidered from a philosophical and scientific basis. John C. Caiazza's main emphasis is on how science is understood as it has a direct impact on social values as expressed by prominent philosophers. He argues that progress is at a standstill, which presents a crisis for Western civilization.

Caiazza presents historical examples, both of scientific inquiry and social and cultural themes, to examine the subject of progress. Beginning with the Whig model and progressive political values exemplified by Bacon and Dewey, he also examines other variations, the Enlightenment, cosmopolitanism, and totalitarianism. Technology, argues Caiazza, also has a stultifying effect on Western culture and to understand the idea of progress, we must take a philosophic rather than a scientific point of view. Modern cosmology has inevitable humanistic and theological implications, and major contemporary philosophers reject social science in favour of ancient concepts of virtue and ethics.

In the end, Caiazza writes that time is an agent, not a neutral plain on which scientific and historical events occur. We can expect technology to keep us in stasis or become aware of the possibility of transcendence. This book will be of interest for students of scientific history and philosophy.

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  • Title The Crisis of Progress: Science, Society, and Values
  • Author John C. Caiazza (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 174
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2016
  • ISBN 9781412862530 / 1412862531
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Values, Progress
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015010463
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483
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