Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy : How Society Shapes Brains, Gods, Maths, and Logics

This book offers a unique analysis of how ideas about science and technology in the public and scientific imaginations (in particular about maths, logic, the gene, the brain, god, and robots) perpetuate the false reality that values and politics are separate from scientific knowledge and its applica...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Restivo, Sal (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Philosophy and science.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781349951604
DOI10.1057/978-1-349-95160-4
Physical DescriptionXIII, 370 p. 1 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue, Part 1. Requiem for Plato and the Gods
  • Prologue, Part 2. The Postmodern Context
  • Chapter 1. The Science of Society
  • Chapter 2. What about the Gene and What about the Brain?
  • Chapter 3. The Social Lives of Minds and Brains
  • Chapter 4. Thinking Machines
  • Chapter 5. God and Society
  • Chapter 6. The Social Construction of Mathematics
  • Chapter 7. What Can a Sociologist Say about Logic?
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion
  • Appendix 1. Moments in the History of the Science of Society
  • Appendix 2. Modelling the Social Brain.

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