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      The Crisis of Progress
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      Science, Society, and Values

      The Crisis of Progress

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      The Crisis of Progress book

      Science, Society, and Values
      ByJohn C. Caiazza
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 25 October 2017
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315131542
      Pages 174
      eBook ISBN 9781315131542
      Subjects Social Sciences
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      Caiazza, J.C. (2016). The Crisis of Progress: Science, Society, and Values (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315131542

      ABSTRACT

      This book is about the concept of progress, its separate varieties, its current rejection, and how it may be reconsidered from a philosophical and scientific basis. John C. Caiazza's main emphasis is on how science is understood as it has a direct impact on social values as expressed by prominent philosophers. He argues that progress is at a standstill, which presents a crisis for Western civilization.Caiazza presents historical examples, both of scientific inquiry and social and cultural themes, to examine the subject of progress. Beginning with the Whig model and progressive political values exemplified by Bacon and Dewey, he also examines other variations, the Enlightenment, cosmopolitanism, and totalitarianism. Technology, argues Caiazza, also has a stultifying effect on Western culture and to understand the idea of progress, we must take a philosophic rather than a scientific point of view. Modern cosmology has inevitable humanistic and theological implications, and major contemporary philosophers reject social science in favour of ancient concepts of virtue and ethics.In the end, Caiazza writes that time is an agent, not a neutral plain on which scientific and historical events occur. We can expect technology to keep us in stasis or become aware of the possibility of transcendence. This book will be of interest for students of scientific history and philosophy.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|6 pages

      Introduction: History and Impact of the Idea of Progress

      chapter 2|22 pages

      Whig History and the Progressive Society

      chapter 3|22 pages

      Enlightenment Progress and the Cosmopolitan Society

      chapter 4|18 pages

      Progress by Reduction and the Totalitarian Temptation

      chapter 5|20 pages

      Historicism, Relativism, and the Open Society

      chapter 6|12 pages

      Where We Are Now: Technology and Culture

      chapter 7|24 pages

      Philosophy, Progress, and Cosmology

      chapter 8|26 pages

      Cosmology and Human Existence

      chapter 9|10 pages

      Conclusion: Crisis, Time, and the Choice

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