Download or read book La science comme mythe written by Yvon Johannisse and published by Montréal : VLB. This book was released on 1988 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le mythe la science et la philosophie written by Alain Lagarde and published by Ellipses Marketing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'aspiration à la vérité ne se confond pas avec l'exigence de sens. Ainsi le mythe est-il doué d'une exubérance sémantique, qui lui permet sans doute de répondre à cette exigence sans pour autant satisfaire notre goût pour la vérité. Inversement la science démystifie les mythes et leurs prolongements métaphysiques, mais ce qu'elle paraît gagner sur le plan de la précision semble se perdre sur le plan de l'expressivité. Etre fidèle à l'une sans renoncer à l'autre, tel est peut-être le pari difficile de la philosophie.
Download or read book Science and Myth written by Gianfranco Spavieri and published by Conscious Pub. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Le recours de la science au mythe written by Patrick Trousson and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'auteur fait un rapprochement entre les grands mythes de la tradition indo-européenne et les principaux thèmes de la science contemporaine, entre autres, l'espace-temps, la logique, la cosmologie.
Download or read book Science and Myth written by Wolfgang Smith and published by Sophia Perennis et Universalis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Science and Myth the author shows, in the first place, that science too has its mythology, unrecognized and unacknowledged though the fact be. These scientistic myths, however, turn out to constitute what he terms anti-myths: "a kind that would banish all others, and in so doing, undermine not only religion and morality, but indeed all culture in its higher modes." What invalidates the contemporary "scientific" world-view and renders it "mythical" in the pejorative sense, he goes on to contend, proves finally to be the underlying hypothesis that human perception terminates, not in an external object, but in a subjective phantasm. Not only does the author maintain cogently that visual perception, in particular, does penetrate to the external world, but basing himself on traditional sources-fromVedic to Biblical-he shows that sight as such opens in principle to a veritable gnosis: a "seeing of the Real."
Download or read book A tort et raison written by Henri Atlan and published by Seuil. This book was released on 1994 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La science, le mythe, le discours mystique, la métaphysique... autant de formes de connaissance isolées l'une de l'autre, de rationalités distinctes et incommensurables, qui témoignent cependant d'une quête commune de la vérité. A ce titre, la vérité scientifique ne peut se prévaloir d'une quelconque supériorité; elle résulte d'une interprétation du réel et n'échappe pas plus qu'une autre forme de savoir à la tentation de prendre ses désirs pour la réalité. A la stérile et sempiternelle confrontation entre la science et le mythe, et contre les dogmatismes de tous ordres, Henri Atlan propose ici de substituer un dialogue permanent et "l'humour sérieux de la multiplicité des jeux de connaissance". Une arme redoutable et salutaire.
Download or read book Science and Myth written by Wolfgang Smith and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To read Wolfgang Smith is to encounter that rara avis: someone deeply versed in science and religion. Whereas most who stand on the side of religion lack the technical expertise to know science "from inside," scientists and writers on science are, as a rule, blind to their own metaphysical assumptions, and woefully inept when it comes to subtle metaphysical points. Not so for Professor Smith, who moves easily between these two essential ways of knowing: between the core twentieth-century discipline of physics, and metaphysical doctrine as articulated by the sapiential traditions of mankind. In Science & Myth the author shows that science too has its mythology, unrecognized and unacknowledged though the fact be. Starting with a profound clarification of this basic issue he goes on to explain the metaphysical significance of scientific findings relating to visual perception, the relation of neurons to mind, and much else, all of which leads up to the central chapter on Stephen Hawking's best-selling book, The Grand Design. Professor Smith first presents Hawking's case, summarizing his entire argument -- in which Hawking claims that the very existence of the universe can be explained on scientific grounds -- and then proceeds with a magisterial point-by-point rebuttal that leaves his grand thesis in tatters. Science & Myth is a must-read for all those concerned with contemporary issues of science and religion.
Download or read book The Science Gap written by Milton A. Rothman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines sixteen standard myths about the nature of science, demonstrating that much of what passes for logical argumentation consists of the repetition of cliches and current folklore.
Download or read book Science and the Myth of Progress written by Mehrdad M. Zarandi and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the fall / Frithjof Schuon -- Sacred and profane science / René Guénon -- Traditional cosmology and the modern world / Titus Burckhardt -- Religion and science / Lord Northbourne -- Contemporary man, between the rim and the axis / Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Christianity and the religious thought of C.G. Jung / Philip Sherrard - - On earth as it is in heaven / James S. Cutsinger -- The nature and extent of criticism of evolutionary theory / Osman Bakar -- Knowledge and knowledge / D.M. Matheson -- Knowledge and its counterfeits / Gai Eaton -- Ignorance / Wendell Berry -- The plague of scientistic belief / Wolfgang Smith -- Scientism: the bedrock of the modern worldview / Huston Smith -- Life as non-historical reality / Giuseppe Sermonti -- Man, creation and the fossil record / Michael Robert Negus -- The act of creation: bridging transcendence and immanence / William A. Dembski.
Download or read book Au risque de l existence written by Jean-Claude Gens and published by Editions Universitaires de Dijon. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La science l oeuvre written by Claude Chrétien and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Science Myth written by Dominique Chu and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are in the midst of a culture war between science and religion. In this struggle science portrays itself as the white knight of enlightenment truth defending humanity against the dark forces of religious fundamentalism, ignorance and gullibility that threaten free thinking and progress. But is there really the fundamental difference between science and religion that the culture warriors like us to believe? This book takes the reader on an inside journey through science showing how scientific beliefs are made. It will show science as a human activity that is shaped by power struggles, personal interests, cultural prejudices, beliefs and values...and yes, experimental data as well. ,
Download or read book The Wonderful Myth Called Science written by Frederick Bauer and published by Solas Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Einstein, Descartes, Locke, Bohr, Rorty, Berkeley, Hume, Kant -magical names When we step on an airplane, turn the key in the ignition, or switch on an air conditioner we - not just academicians - all agree that the ideas of these far-sighted sages of the Enlightenment and Modernism saved us from the Medieval life. But, as the author shows, if we fully accept their ideas a drastic change in our world-view ensues. Fred Bauer has been examining the great minds for many years, and in easily understood terms gives us a surely amazing Grand Unifying Theory. Of course, he gives ample reasons why we each have to choose for ourselves - rejecting or accepting concepts. In any case, The Wonderful Myth Called Science poses an exciting and at times an emotionally challenging exploration of science and living.
Download or read book L id e de science chez Vico written by Marco Vanzulli and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'objectif principal que se propose ce travail est de montrer, dans toute sa complexité, le caractère scientifique de la nouvelle science vichienne. L'épistémologie de la Science Nouvelle apparaîtra, à travers notre analyse, comme le résultat de trois composants gnoséologiques fondamentaux: la rhétorique, la jurisprudence et la science de la nature. Sans nier la fonction essentielle des instances sensibles et imaginatives, nous essaierons de montrer l'importance de la détermination rationnelle qui caractérise la Science Nouvelle, et le corpus vichien tout entier. Une telle lecture nous permettra d'envisager le caractère anthropologique tout à fait particulier de la science "relative à la commune nature des nations" et de nous arrêter sur l'interprétation civile du mythe qu'elle contient. Nous essaierons finalement de jeter les bases d'une actualisation et d'une application de l'herméneutique vichienne du mythe en la comparant avec le courant phénoménologique et irrationaliste des études contemporaines de la mythologie et de l'histoire des religions.
Download or read book Science as Salvation written by Mary Midgley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science as Salvationdiscusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather round the notion of science. Officially, science claims only the modest function of establishing facts. Yet people still hope for something much grander from it--namely, the myths by which to shape and support life in an increasingly confusing age. Our faith in science is abused by some scientists whose adolescent fantasies have spilled over into their professional lives. Salvation, immortality, mastery of the universe, humans without bodies, and intelligent self-reproducing computers are just some of the notions and speculations that are now found--not on the pages of science fiction--but on the pages of science itself. The danger is that these concepts are given to a myth-hungry public who turn to science now that religion has lost its ability to create myth. Science as Salvationdiscusses the function and meaning of such fantasies. Midgley examines the need for and the use of myth in science, and how science and religion are related. She argues that we need to develop a realistic understanding of scientific imagination and its importance. Taking them seriously as symptoms of a genuine myth-hunger, it suggests that the proper function of science may need to include wider perspectives, which would make it plain that such desperate, compensatory dramas are unnecessary.
Download or read book Le mythe du savoir written by Masahiko Kimura and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorsqu'en 1926 Valéry fait de la Science l'objet d'une certaine suspicion, en l'associant au "Mythe du Savoir", il reconnaît que les bases épistémologiques sur lesquelles se sont fondées, dès sa jeunesse, ses prises de position scientifiques n'ont pas été acceptées sans distanciation critique. Dès lors, il s'agit d'analyser les composantes diverses informant une problématique de refonte, et de reformulation, des principes qui vont innerver une certaine vue de la Science, et qui vont conduire Valéry à chercher de nouveaux formulés, voire un nouveau langage scientifique. D'abord, l'examen du contexte de son adolescence révèle que l'émergence de sa pensée scientifique était inséparable du mysticisme, de la science-fiction et de l'art militaire, domaines qui l'intéressaient dans les années 1880 et 1890. Ensuite, une analyse génétique de l'"Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci" nous permet de comprendre l'évolution de la pensée de Valéry au contact de plusieurs grands esprits (Léonard de Vinci, Descartes, Laplace, Poincaré , Faraday, Maxwell et Lord Kelvin). Enfin, les "Cahiers" et les oeuvres postérieures témoignent, par de nombreux échos intertextuels de l'impact des théories de la relativité et des quanta sur Valéry qui s'est aperçu du vieillissement du savoir traditionnel ainsi que de l'incertitude de l'avenir de la science
