TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gonzalez,Wenceslao J.
TI  - The Limits of Science: An Analysis from Barriers to Confines
T2  - Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities Series
SN  - 9789004325401
AV  - Q175.L565 2016 
U1  - 501 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- The Limits of Science: An Analysis from "Barriers" to "Confines" -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface: The Problem of the Limits of Science in the Present Context -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1: Limits as Frontiers and as Confines -- Rethinking the Limits of Science: From the Difficulties Regarding the Frontiers to the Concern about the Confines -- The Uncertain Frontier between Scientific Theories and Metaphysical Research Programmes -- Cognitive Problems and Practical Limits: Computers and Our Limitations -- Part 2: Two Poles of Analysis: Language and Ethics -- Language and the Limits of Science -- Ethical Limits of Science, Especially Economics -- Part 3: Epistemological Limits to Science -- Predicting and Knowability: The Problem of Future Knowledge -- The Limits of Future Knowledge: An Analysis of Nicholas Rescher's Epistemological Approach -- The Limits of Information Science -- Part 4: The Limits from Inside and the Limits from Outside -- Rescher and Gadamer: Two Complementary Views of the Limits of Sciences -- The Obstacles to Scientific Prediction: An Analysis of the Limits of Predictability from the Ontology of Science -- Index of Names -- Subject Index
N2  - The problem of the limits of science -- of the "barriers" and the "confines" -- requires a new analysis, which is the task of this book. The issue is considered from the perspective of science as a human activity
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