A Brief History of Philosophy and Science

Imagining our World

S. Don Bradshaw (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

115 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5065-6 (ISBN)

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This book explores the relationship between science and philosophy and begins with the extraordinary mathematical explanations of Earth's solar system by the Ancient Greeks. Throughout the Middle Ages, human thinking suffered the strictures imposed by the Roman Catholic Church but emerged during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Age of the Enlightenment. During this era, ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview and instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. In The Age of Technology, which followed in the 19th and 20th centuries, humans became alienated from the natural environment and abandoned philosophical thought. Belief in the machine was supreme and it is only in the 21st century that humans have come to understand the downside of unfettered science; the threat of nuclear annihilation is still with us, and we now face the new threat of human-induced global warming. Can philosophy open a door to thinking that helps one to understand one's own time, and our place in it?

Professor Emeritus S Don Bradshaw, PhD FAIBiol, held the Foundation Chair of Zoology at the University of Western Australia until his retirement in 2005. He is an ecophysiologist and comparative endocrinologist, studying the physiological responses of free-living animals to the environmental challenges of high temperatures and lack of free water. His primary interest has focused on vertebrates in deserts of Australia, North Africa and the United States. This has led to ongoing studies on stress physiology in many vertebrate species, in an attempt to identify and measure the intensity of stress responses in wild populations of animals. He has published monographs with Academic Press, Springer and Cambridge University Press, 35 invited chapters and over 250 scientific articles in international journals. As a university teacher his lectures are remembered by many former students as exploring the philosophical dimension of the current topic, designed to open their minds to the ways in which we acquire knowledge.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.07.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	1-0364-5065-1 / 1036450651
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5065-6 / 9781036450656
Zustand	Neuware