Science and the Quest for Meaning

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247 $ Index 1950s, 1, 3, 4, 9, 143, 195n11 1960s, 18, 143, 167, 1970s, 18, 100, 104, 143 1980s, 100 1990s, 8, 18, 100, 111, 197n1 Aggasiz, Louis, 63–64 aesthetic (as an element of scientific inquiry), 11, 14, 30, 31, 35, 36, 38, 47, 63, 81–85 passim, 89, 100, 110–11, 116, 129, 147, 174, 177, 179, 181, 185, 187n1, 191n5, 200n8, 219–20n7, 121n11 sublime 190–91n4 Goethe and, 57–58, 84, 195n8, 198–99n3 analytic philosophy, 40, 77, 92–93, 171; see also logical positivism; Quine; Wittgenstein Anderson, Elizabeth, 220n8 anti-science, 3, 18; see also Science Wars Aristotle, 22, 195n10, 214n6 Atlan, Henri, 104, 158, 159, 172, 180, 206n14, 213n6, 214n7, 217n3 Audubon, John James, 161 Bachelard, Gaston, 172, 180 Bacon, Francis, 24, 39, 41, 45, 53, 69, 87, 136, 140, 142, 179 Baigrie, Brian, 209n5 Bartram, William, 161 Barfield, Owen, 217n2 Bateson, Gregory, 158 belief, religious, 24, 26–28, 29, 31, 40, 52, 69, 72, 137, 144, 147, 152, 187n1, 190n3; see also science and religion belief, scientific, 3, 4, 24, 28, 31, 62, 79, 101, 104, 106, 114, 118, 119, 124, 134, 173, 180, 182, 202n11, 209n6 belief, unity of, 31, 39, 41, 43, 71, 83–84, 94, 95, 97, 123–24, 168, 184, 199n6, 200n8, 205n11, 210n10; see also coherence Berger, Peter, 206n16 biology, 17, 19, 26, 27, 64, 65, 66, 73, 106, 137, 138, 147–49, 152–59 passim , 206n14, 212–14n6, 214n7; see also ecology; molecular biology Bloor, David, 101, 113, 117, 200n8, 211n1 Bohr, Niels, 193n1 “boundary question” (borders of science), 5, 10, 13, 15, 67, 70, 72, 113, 117, 136–37, 149, 151, 155, 190n3, 209n6, 211n1, 218n5 248 Index Boyle, Robert, 54, 188n2 Brandom, Robert, 206–7n18 Bronowsky, J., 4, 138 Bush, George W., 25, 134, 153 Carnap, Rudolf, 86, 96, 99, 199n4, 201n10 citizen activism, 3, 6, 8, 12, 45, 73, 130, 140–42, 145–46 coherence, 2, 9, 11, 25, 30–31, 33, 39, 42, 47, 56, 61, 84–86 passim, 114, 116, 119, 158, 167, 171, 182–85 passim, 187n1, 195n 9, 195n10, 203–5n11, 210n8, 221n11; see also belief, unity of Collingwood, R. G., 28 Collins, Harry, 101, 102, 113, 115, 124, 146 Comte, Auguste, 72, 73, 77 Conant, James, 4, 138 constructivism, 59–60, 79, 89, 93, 99, 100–2, 123, 189n2, 210n9, 211n1; social 113–15, 120, 188n1, 194n6, 206n15, 206n17, 211n1; see also antiscience ; defenders of science; Kant; science, sociology of; science studies; Science Wars Croce, Benedetto, 57, 177 Darwin, Charles, 28, 65, 69, 147, 214n6 Darwinian evolution, 91; see also neoDarwinian evolutionary theory Daston, Lorraine, 53, 55, 60, 67 Davidson, Donald, 11 Dear, Peter, 124 “defenders” of science, 7, 14, 18, 98, 102, 111–15, 128, 129, 142, 149, 207n1; see also constructivism; Gross; Levitt; Science Wars; Sokal Dennett, Daniel, 158 Descartes, René, 12, 37, 166, 170, 173, 217–18n3 De Sousa, Ronald, 83 determinism, genetic, 36, 133, 148–49, 151 Dewey, John, 77, 138, 165, 181–82, 184–85, 220n8, 221n9 discovery, scientific, 15–16, 35, 41, 51, 56, 61, 74, 80–82, 93, 100, 103–4, 110, 115, 160, 172, 181, 190n3, 195– 96n11, 198n2, 208n4, 221n11; see also logical positivism; verification, scientific disunity of science, 110 Duhem, Pierre, 77, 200n9 Durkheim, Emil, 101 ecology, 19, 152–56 passim, 187n1, 212n5; see also environmental ethics Einstein, Albert, 193n1 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 49, 160, 179 emotion, 36, 53, 60, 80–85 passim, 137, 172–74, 176, 180–82, 195n7, 200n8 emotional intelligence, 83–84, 197–98n1 environmental ethics, 19, 152–56, 159, 215n8 epistemography, 124–25 epistemology, 7, 11–12, 16, 17, 31, 36, 41, 46, 59, 68, 70, 77, 79, 91, 93, 98–99, 101, 104–5, 110, 117, 119, 124, 158, 165, 175, 183, 188n2, 194n6, 195n8, 207n18, 211n1, 218n4; see also constructivism; Dewey; emotional intelligence; fact; Goethe; logical positivism; moral epistemology; neutrality; objectivity; observer; positivism ; Quine; science, models of; science, philosophy of; truth; scientific method; Thoreau; verification, scientific fact, 1–2, 6, 10, 15, 22–24, 28, 30, 35–37, 40–43 passim, 50–55 passim, 58–59, 74, 102–3, 104, 106, 111, 114, 116, 119, 124, 126, 134–35, 139, 141, 157, 166, 170, 175, 190n2, 192–93n1, 194n5, 194n6, 200n8, 201–3n11, 206n 17; see also fact/value distinction; neutrality; objectivity; positivism; science , values of Polanyi’s view of, 80, 82 Quine’s view of, 94, 95, 98 relation to observation, 61–62 relation to value, 2, 6, 10–11, 16, 46...