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Science and the Quest for Meaning
Waco TX:
Baylor University Press, 2009
From the inside cover :
Avoiding the dogmatism that has defined both extremes in the recent 'Science Wars' and presenting a conception of reason that lifts the discussion out of the interminable debates about objectivity and neutrality, this book offers a way of understanding science as an evolving relationship between facts and the values that govern their discovery and applications. This text presents a centrist view wherein 'truth' and 'objectivity' function as working ideals and serve as pragmatic tools. If the humanization of science is to reach completion, it must reveal not only the meaning it receives from its social and cultural settings, but also that which it lends to them.
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