Chakravartty, Anjan (2025) What is Science For? Modern Intersections of Science and Humanism. Science and Humanism: Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good. pp. 11-35. ISSN 9781009626880
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Humanism, conceived as a worldview concerning, among other things, how we understand ourselves and our relationships with others, and science, conceived as a family of forms of inquiry into the world, are deeply interwoven over our intellectual and cultural histories. Chakravartty considers their co-evolution as a prelude to the present, reviewing formative aspects of Renaissance humanism and deepening associations of values central to the Enlightenment with precursors to modern science, en route to an arguably peculiar situation today. While some past, humanist conceptions of the aim of science seem intimately connected to the idea of making a better world – one featuring better and more widespread human and planetary flourishing – contemporary thinking seems largely devoid of normative discussions of what science itself is for. This chapter offers reflections on a possible return to a humanist conception of the role and promise of science.
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| Keywords: | humanism, religious humanism, science, Renaissance humanism, Enlightenment humanism, logical empiricism, American pragmatism, scientism, Indigenous knowledge, values in science | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Dr. Anjan Chakravartty | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 21 Dec 2025 02:37 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 21 Dec 2025 02:37 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 27592 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Science and Humanism: Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Pres | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/science-and-h... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009626880 | ||||||
| Date: | 2025 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 11-35 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 9781009626880 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/27592 |
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