Download or read book Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell written by Javier Pérez-Jara and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) was a logician, a philosopher, and one of the twentieth century’s most visible public intellectuals. Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology brings those three aspects together to trace Russell’s changing views on the role of science and technology in society throughout his long intellectual career. Drawing from cultural sociology, history of science, and philosophy, Javier Pérez-Jara and Lino Camprubí provide a fresh multidimensional analysis of the general themes of science, technology, utopia, and apocalypse. The book critically examines Russell’s influential interpretations of the turn-of-the-century mathematical logic, World War I, the metaphysics and epistemology of mind and matter, World War II, nuclear holocaust, and the Vietnam War. In Russell’s compelling narratives, humanity was a powder keg and the match was represented by different and successive meta-adversaries, such as religion, communism, and American imperialism. And the only way to avoid a coming global Holocaust was to follow his own salvific recipes. In working around Russell’s role in the cultural perception of the final destiny of humanity, Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell invites the reader to think about the place of the techno-scientific sphere in human progress and decadence in both our current epoch and the distant future.
Download or read book Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell written by Javier Pérez-Jara and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book weaves together apparently disconnected elements of Bertrand Russell's philosophy and social activism into a coherent narrative about the acclaimed twentieth-century intellectual's evolving stances concerning science and technology and their role in bringing either a future Golden Age or a secular Doomsday.
Download or read book Apocalypse and Paradigm written by Errol E. Harris and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of scientific paradigms is much more widespread than usually realized. According to Harris, it permeates the whole of the culture of which science is an integral part. The paradigm of Newtonian science was essentially mechanistic and atomistic, and thinking in these terms not only penetrated philosophy, economics, morals and politics for the next three centuries, but remains latent in 20th century ways of thought. As Harris illustrates, the Newtonian paradigm is obsolete in confronting today's global problems. While Planck and Einstein introduced a new scientific revolution at the beginning of the century, it has yet to be reflected in common habits of thinking. It is now urgently necessary to adopt the new conceptual scheme in other fields as it has come to dominate science if global issues are to be resolved. A provocative analysis that will be of particular interest to students, teachers, and policymakers involved with public policy, the history of science and philosophy, and ethics.
Download or read book The A B C of Armageddon written by Peter H. Denton and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Bertrand Russell's writings during the interwar years, a period when he advocated "the scientific outlook" to insure the survival of humanity in an age of potential self-destruction.
Download or read book Icarus Or the Future of Science written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Science on Society written by Bertrand Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Religion and Science written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays was originally published in 1910 as Philosophical Essays but later republished under the new title. In Mysticism and Logic Bertrand Russell presents ten essays to challenge romantic mysticism and promote a general scientific worldview of society and nature. Russell explains his theory of logical atomism in these witty, cogent writings, which include popular treatments of religious and educational issues as well as more technical examinations of problems of logic.
Download or read book Apocalyptic Narratives written by Hauke Riesch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking literature from the sociological study of the apocalyptic with the sociology and philosophy of science, Apocalyptic Narratives explores how the apocalyptic narrative frames and provides meaning to contemporary, secular and scientific crises focussing on nuclear war, general environmental crisis and climate change in both English- and German-speaking cultural contexts. In particular, the book will use social identity and representation theories, the sociologies of risk and Lakatos’ philosophy of science to trace how our cultural background and apocalyptic tradition shape our wider interpretation, communication and response to contemporary global crisis. The set of environmental and other challenges that the world is facing is often framed in terms of apocalyptic or existential crisis. Yet apocalyptic fears about the near future are nothing new. This book looks at the narrative connections between our current sense of crisis and the apocalyptic. The book will be of interest to readers interested in environmental crisis and communication, the sociology and philosophy of science, and existential risk, but also to readers interested in the apocalyptic and its contemporary relevance.
Download or read book Avoiding Apocalypse written by Jeff Colvin and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A compulsive read...' Exclusive Magazine Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events. Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists’ boycott led to the end not only of the Cold War but also of the Soviet Union itself.
Download or read book Mortals and Others Volume II written by Bertrand Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.' - Bertrand Russell From 1931-1935 Bertrand Russell was one of the regular contributors to the literary pages of the New York American, together with other distinguished authors, such as Aldous Huxley and Vita Sackville-West. Mortals and Others Volume II presents a further selection of his essays, ranging from the politically correct, to the perfectly obscure: from The Prospects of Democracy to Men Versus Insects. Even though written in the politically heated climate of the 1930s, these essays are surprisingly topical and engaging for the present day reader. Volume II of Mortals and Others serves as a splendid, fresh introduction to the compassionate eclecticism of Bertrand Russell's mind.
Download or read book Is Materialism Bankrupt written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion and Science written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Science written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Contemporary Materialism Its Ontology and Epistemology written by Gustavo E. Romero and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date revision of materialism’s central tenets, its main varieties, and the place of materialistic philosophy vis a vis scientific knowledge. Materialism has been the subject of extensive and rich controversies since Robert Boyle introduced the term for the first time in the 17th century. But what is materialism and what can it offer today? The term is usually defined as the worldview according to which everything real is material. Nevertheless, there is no philosophical consensus about whether the meaning of matter can be enlarged beyond the physical. As a consequence, materialism is often defined in stark exclusive and reductionist terms: whatever exists is either physical or ontologically reducible to it. This conception, if consistent, mutilates reality, excluding the ontological significance of political, economic, sociocultural, anthropological and psychological realities. Starting from a new history of materialism, the present book focuses on the central ontological and epistemological debates aroused by today’s leading materialist approaches, including some little known to an anglophone readership. The key concepts of matter, system, emergence, space and time, life, mind, and software are checked over and updated. Controversial issues such as the nature of mathematics and the place of reductionism are also discussed from different materialist approaches. As a result, materialism emerges as a powerful, indispensable scientifically-supported worldview with a surprising wealth of nuances and possibilities.
Download or read book Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
