Science, Politics and Social Practice: Essays on Marxism and Science, Philosophy of Culture and the Social Sciences In honor of Robert S. Cohen / Edition 1

by K. Gavroglu, John Stachel, Marx W. Wartofsky

Overview

The essays in this Festschrift are celebrations of the human mind in its manifold expressions - philosophical, scientific, historical, aesthetic, political - and in its various modes - analytical, systematic, critical, imaginative, constructive. They are offered to Robert S. Cohen on the occasion of his 70th birthday, in acknowledgment of his own extra­ ordinary participation in the life of the mind, and of his unfailing encouragement and facilitation of the participation of others. It is fitting that these volumes should appear in the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, the series which he co-founded so many years ago, and of which he has been the principal editor for more than three decades. (These are perhaps the only volumes of that series which he has not edited or co-edited! ) The three volumes that constitute this Festschrift cover the range of Cohen's interests as a philosopher/scientistlhumanist, as they also represent the spectrum of his professional and personal friendships. (Regretfully, the editors could not include contributions from more of them here. ) The first volume centers around the philosophy and history of the natural sciences and mathematics; Volume Two collects essays related to Marxism and science, philosophy of culture and the social sciences; and the third volume focuses on science and the humanistic understanding in art, epistemology, religion and ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048144372
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Series:	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science , #164
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1995
Pages:	406
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.78(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

A. Relations of Marxism to Science and Philosophy.- On Bob Cohen.- Love and Hate: Learning “Human Nature” under Communism.- Marxist Philosophy and Humanism in Mainland China — An Outline.- Cohen’s Carnap, or Subjectivity is in the Eye of the Beholder.- Stalinism and Soviet Science.- Herbert Marcuse on Real Existing Socialism: A Hindsight Look at Soviet Marxism.- Marx on Science and Capitalism.- Karl Popper and Karl Marx.- B. Science, Technology and Society.- Technological Praxis: Reflections.- Science, Society and the Expanding Boundaries of Moral Discourse.- The Concept of Scientific Law.- After the ‘System’: Philosophy in the Age of the Sciences.- Civil Society and the Politisation of Needs.- C. Methodological, Ontological and Phenomenological Issues in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences.- Cybernetics and Social Entitles.- Risk Models and Geological Judgments: The Case of Yucca Mountain.- Some Reflections on Inequality and Class Structure.- From “Dualism of Human Nature” to “Human Being as a Mixed Phenomenon”.- The Tragedy of Political Science.- D. Culture, Reason and Ethics.- Reasoning in the Social World: Prolegomenon to a Sociology of Argument.- Rhetoric and Ethics: Adam Smith on Theorizing about the Moral Sentiments.- Ecofeminism as Reconstruction: Making Peace with Nature.- On Cultural Relativism and “Radical Doubt”.- From the Quaestiones to the Essais: On the Autonomy and Methods of the History of Philosophy.- Index of Names.