Science Unlimited?: The Challenges of Scientism

by Massimo Pigliucci

All too often in contemporary discourse, we hear about science overstepping its proper limits--about its brazenness, arrogance, and intellectual imperialism. The problem, critics say, is scientism: the privileging of science over all other ways of knowing. Science, they warn, cannot do or explain everything, no matter what some enthusiasts believe. In Science Unlimited?, noted philosophers of science Maarten Boudry and Massimo Pigliucci gather...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022649814X
• ISBN13: 9780226498140
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"