The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry (NEW EDITION)
Autor Rupert Sheldrakeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iun 2020
Notăm cu interes că The Science Delusion debutează nu prin teorii abstracte, ci prin examinarea critică a zece ipoteze care au împietrit în dogme moderne, de la ideea că natura este lipsită de scop până la premisa că materia este moartă. Recomandăm această ediție nouă cititorilor care doresc să exploreze cum procesul de cercetare poate fi eliberat de constrângerile ideologice. Autorul propune un set de întrebări fundamentale care transformă afirmațiile dogmatice în ipoteze testabile, invitând la o reevaluare a fenomenelor pe care știința convențională le etichetează adesea drept anomalii.
Merită menționat că lucrarea extinde cadrul teoretic propus de Science Set Free cu date noi, oferind o perspectivă mai nuanțată asupra modului în care viziunea mecanicistă a devenit un sistem de credință în sine. Față de The Religion of Science de Dr. N. Lee Swanson, care analizează originile ideilor noastre despre lume, Rupert Sheldrake își ancorează argumentele în rigoarea biochimiei și biologiei celulare, discipline în care s-a format la Cambridge.
În contextul operei sale, volumul reprezintă puntea necesară între studiile sale tehnice despre rezonanța morfică, regăsite în The Presence of the Past, și lucrările sale mai recente, precum Science and Spiritual Practices. Dacă în scrierile anterioare se concentra pe mecanisme biologice specifice, aici Rupert Sheldrake realizează o sinteză filosofică și metodologică, poziționându-se ca un contra-argument științific la viziunile reducționiste promovate de autori precum Richard Dawkins. Structura textului este clară, adresându-se mediului academic și profesioniștilor care caută o abordare a filozofiei științei care să nu ignore complexitatea conștiinței umane.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1529393221
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Yellow Kite
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Această carte este esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă limitele paradigmei științifice actuale. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra „dogmelor” moderne, fiind încurajat să gândească dincolo de materialismul restrictiv. Este o recomandare solidă pentru studenții la filozofie și științe care caută un argument bine documentat pentru o știință mai deschisă și mai puțin dogmatică.
Despre autor
Rupert Sheldrake este un biolog britanic de renume, fost cercetător la Royal Society și director de studii în biologie celulară la Clare College, Cambridge. Cu un doctorat în biochimie obținut la Cambridge University, Sheldrake a publicat peste 80 de lucrări științifice și 10 cărți traduse la nivel internațional. Cariera sa este marcată de explorarea fenomenelor neexplicate, fiind timp de cinci ani directorul proiectului Perrott-Warrick pentru cercetarea abilităților umane. În prezent, este membru al Institute of Noetic Sciences din California, continuând să provoace frontierele cunoașterii prin studii despre conștiință și biologia dezvoltării.
Descriere
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. The 'scientific worldview' has become a belief system. All reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead matter. Nature is purposeless. Consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain. Free will is an illusion. God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls.
Sheldrake examines these dogmas scientifically, and shows persuasively that science would be better off without them: freer, more interesting, and more fun.
In The God Delusion Richard Dawkins used science to bash God, but here Rupert Sheldrake shows that Dawkins' understanding of what science can do is old-fashioned and itself a delusion.
'Rupert Sheldrake does science, humanity and the world at large a considerable favour.'
The Independent
'Certainly we need to accept the limitations of much current dogma and keep our minds open as we reasonably can. Sheldrake may help us do so through this well-written, challenging and always interesting book.'
Financial Times
Recenzii
'This is a terrific, engrossing book that throws open the shutters to reveal our world to be so much more intriguing and profound than could ever have been supposed.'
'The author, a biologist, takes issue with the idea that science already understands the nature of reality - and in doing so, frees up the spirit of enquiry.'
'There is something rather odd about the current state of science. For Rupert Sheldrake, [it is] facing a 'credibility crunch' on many fronts. He presents this challenging argument by identifying 'ten core beliefs that most scientists take for granted.' He then interrogates each in turn by reformulating it, in the spirit of radical scepticism, as a question. This Socratic method of inquiry proves surprisingly illuminating. A serious mind-expanding book.'
'Certainly we need to accept the limitations of much current dogma and keep our minds open as we reasonably can. Sheldrake may help us do so through this well-written, challenging and always interesting book.'
'Rupert Sheldrake does science, humanity and the world at large a considerable favour.'
Rupert Sheldrake shows very convincingly the way that time and again scientists refuse to look at anything outside a very limited set of possibilities. Sheldrake shows powerfully how some professional skeptics simply have no interest in looking into claims for anything outside of our current scientific understanding. A valuable and powerful message.
'Isn't it nice to have some mystery back? Isn't it nice to have doubts?'
'We must somehow find different, more realistic ways of understanding human beings - and indeed other animals - as the active wholes that they are, rather than pretending to see them as meaningless consignments of chemicals. Rupert Sheldrake, who has long called for this development, spells out this need forcibly in his new book. He shows how materialism has gradually hardened into a kind of anti-Christian principle, claiming authority to dictate theories and to veto inquiries on topics that don't suit it, such as unorthodox medicine, let along religion. He shows just how unworkable the assumptions behind today's fashionable habits have become. The 'science delusion' of his title is the current popular confidence in certain fixed assumptions - the exaltation of today's science, not as the busy, constantly changing workshop that it actually is but as a final, infallible oracle preaching a crude kind of materialism... His insistence on the need to attend to possible wider ways of thinking is surely right.'
'A fascinating, humane and refreshing book that any layman can enjoy, in which he takes ten supposed scientific 'laws' and turns them, instead, into questions... Dr Sheldrake wants to bring energy and excitement back into science... he has already done more than any other scientist alive to broaden the appeal of the discipline, and readers should get their teeth into the important and astounding book.'
'This is a delightful, interesting, informative, highly readable and much needed book and we definitely recommend it.'
'This is a book about science and understanding the world that I have been hoping to read for years. It should be on every science student's course.'
'This book is worth reading because of the depth of focus that the author brings to bear not only on the mind and our fixed opinions but also on our unthinking acceptance of the world, as we like to see it, along with our unquestioned assumptions.'
'Sheldrake will be seen as a prophet.'
An entertaining read.
Whether or not we want to follow Sheldrake's further speculations on topics such as morphic resonance, his insistence on the need to attend to possible wider ways of thinking is surely right.
The maverick scientist questions the orthodox of "scientific worldview".