The Critique of Scientific Reason

by Kurt Hübner

Book Overview

A systematic critique of the notion that natural science is the sovereign domain of truth, Critique of Scientific Reason uses an extensive and detailed investigation of physics--and in particular of Einstein's theory of relativity--to argue that the positivistic notion of rationality is not only wrongheaded but false. Kurt H bner contends that positivism ignores both the historical dimension of science and the basic structures common to scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226357090
• ISBN13: 9780226357096
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"