Scientism and scientific fundamentalism: what science can learn from mainstream religion

R Peels - Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
An increasing number of scientists, philosophers, and popular science writers claim that
science is the measure of all. They assert that science can answer all questions, that there …

Scientism and scientific thinking: A note on science education

R Gasparatou - Science & Education, 2017 - Springer
The move from respecting science to scientism, ie, the idealization of science and scientific
method, is simple: We go from acknowledging the sciences as fruitful human activities to …

How Not to Criticise Scientism

J Hietanen, P Turunen, I Hirvonen, J Karisto… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper argues that the main global critiques of scientism lose their punch because they
rely on an uncharitable definition of their target. It focuses on epistemological scientism and …

Ten reasons to embrace scientism

R Peels - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2017 - Elsevier
A strong version of scientism, such as that of Alex Rosenberg, says, roughly, that natural
science reliably delivers rational belief or knowledge, whereas common sense sources of …

Epistemological scientism and the scientific meta-method

P Turunen, I Hirvonen, I Pättiniemi - European Journal for Philosophy of …, 2023 - Springer
This paper argues that the proponents of epistemological scientism must take some stand
on scientific methodology. The supporters of scientism cannot simply defer to the social …

Neoliberalism, Technocracy and Higher Education: Editors' Introduction

J Cruickshank, R Abbinnett - Social Epistemology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This special issue of Social Epistemology has its origin in two symposia organised by the
Contemporary Philosophy of Technology Research Group at the University of Birmingham …

Decolonizing climate change response: African indigenous knowledge and sustainable development

JO David - Frontiers in Sociology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) poses a critical challenge necessitating
effective global climate change mitigation efforts. However, the pervasive influence of …

The Scientism Debate

M Mizrahi - For and Against Scientism: Science, Methodology …, 2022 - books.google.com
2. METHODS AND RESULTS For the purpose of this empirical study, then, my research
question is this: What is the scientism debate in academic philosophy fundamentally about …

(Post-) Modernity and Christian Culture in the Context of the Personalism of Stefan Cardinal Wyszyński

R Ficek - Roczniki Kulturoznawcze, 2020 - ceeol.com
Need to indent here, a rough analysis of the situation in the world is enough to realize the
here and throughout modern Christianity, as well as the foundation on which today's culture …

[PDF][PDF] Scientism and Sentiments about Progress in Science and Academic Philosophy

M Mizrahi - Social Epistemology Review and Reply …, 2023 - social-epistemology.com
Mizrahi (2017a) advances an argument in support of Weak Scientism, which is the view that
scientific knowledge is the best (but not the only) knowledge we have, according to which …