This book presents a unified theory of science by challenging some of the lingering myths and anachronisms associated with our understanding of what it means to be scientific. The book presents a new science narrative focused on the dialectics of discovering/inventing new worlds in an age of hermeneutics, and as an alternative to the prevailing view of the history of science as, largely, a confrontation between science and religion. It argues that the development of modern science is, in a complex way, intertwined with the history of the university, a knowledge institution that throughout the centuries has repeatedly managed to reinvent itself—so successfully, indeed, that it has paradoxically led to a fundamental crisis of identity today. The book suggests that, in order to recognize science as a quest for truth in a globalizing world of cognitive horizontalization, we need to transcend the false alternatives of objectivistic certitude (possessing “the Truth”) and relativistic resignation (“post-truth”) by means of a new focus on collegial practices.
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ISBN
9781527534452
Publisert
2024-01-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Høyde
212 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
366

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Bengt Kristensson Uggla is the Amos Anderson Chair of Philosophy, Culture, and Management at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Since the 1990s, he has developed the field of cross-disciplinary hermeneutics, mainly inspired by the works of Paul Ricoeur, and is the author of fifteen books and numerous other publications across a wide field of disciplines in the human and social sciences, healthcare and management, among others. His publications in English include, Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization (2010), and the award-winning intellectual biography, Becoming Human Again: The Theological Life of Gustaf Wingren (2016).