The Triumph of Uncertainty: Science and Self in the Postmodern Age Tauber Alfred I.
The Triumph of Uncertainty: Science and Self in the Postmodern Age Tauber Alfred I. Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how…
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The Triumph of Uncertainty: Science and Self in the Postmodern Age Tauber Alfred I.
Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. This "triumph of uncertainty" is the inevitable outcome of irreducible chance and indeterminate causality. He frames his account through science's - and his own personal - quest for explanatory certainty.During the 20th century, that goal was displaced by the probabilistic epistemologies required to characterize complex systems, whether in physics, biology, economics, or the social sciences.
Whereas positivism had claimed radical objectivity, And beyond these epistemological limits, the interpretative faculties of the individual scientist (what Michael Polanyi called the "personal" and the "tacit") invariably affects how data are understood.
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