Science and Human Values
- New Delhi Global Vision Publishing House 2005
- vi+248p
includes index and biblioraphy
The present work is, indeed a serious effort to critically examine the relation between science and human values in philosophical and historical prespective. it is common acceptance that science and human values can not move together because science deals with facts, not with values, and its corollary that human value lies outside the realm of science. this objection to the mixing of science and values gradually dissapears. probably the most influential factor currently sustaining the science-values dichotomy is the prevailing acceptance of the contention of professional philosophy that it is logically impossible to determine what `ought to be` from what `is`, or to derive ethical priorities from objective facts. Bridging Science and Values The Nature of Science and Its Humanistic Approach Science and Human Values in Plato`s Philosophy Aristotelian Science and Human Values Science and Human Values in Bruno, Brahe, Kepler and Copernicus Philosophy Galileo and the Rise of Scientific Mechanism Einstein Theory of Relativity and Human Values Darwin`s Evolution and Human Values