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      Science, Ethics and Religion

      Scientism

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      Scientism book

      Science, Ethics and Religion
      ByMikael Stenmark
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2001
      eBook Published 31 December 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315243627
      Pages 168
      eBook ISBN 9781315243627
      Subjects Humanities
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      Stenmark, M. (2001). Scientism: Science, Ethics and Religion (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315243627

      ABSTRACT

      Can science tell us everything there is to know about reality? The intellectual and practical successes of science have led some scientists to think that there are no real limits to the competence of science, and no limits to what can be achieved in the name of science. Accordingly, science has no boundaries; it will eventually answer all our problems. This view (and similar views) have been called Scientism. In this important book scientists' views about science and its relationship to knowledge, ethics and religion are subjected to critical scrutiny. A number of distinguished natural scientists have advocated Scientism in one form or another - Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, and Edward O. Wilson - and their impressive impact both inside and outside the sciences is considered. Clarifying what Scientism is, this book proceeds to evaluate its key claims, expounded in questions such as: Is it the case that science can tell us everything there is to know about reality? Can science tell us how we morally ought to live and what the meaning of life is? Can science in fact be our new religion? Ought we to become "science believers"? Stenmark addresses these and similar issues, concluding that Scientism is not really science but disguised materialism or naturalism; its advocates fail to see this, not being sufficiently aware that their arguments presuppose the previous acceptance of certain extra-scientific or philosophical beliefs.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|17 pages

      What is Scientism?

      chapter 2|16 pages

      The limits of knowledge and reality

      chapter 3|19 pages

      The scientific explanation of morality

      chapter 4|25 pages

      Debunking and replacing traditional ethics with science

      chapter 5|13 pages

      The scientific explanation of religion

      chapter 6|42 pages

      Debunking and replacing traditional religion with science

      chapter 7|10 pages

      Scientism and the fear of religion: some concluding remarks

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