Book Talk with Anjan Chakravartty: "Science and Humanism: Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good"
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https://humanities.as.miami.edu/public-programs/booktalks/index.htmlThe Center for the Humanities invites you to an upcoming Book Talk with Anjan Chakravartty, Professor of Philosophy, on his recent publication, Science and Humanism: Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good.
Historically and conceptually, influential traditions of thought and practice associated with humanism and science have been deeply connected. Science and Humanism: Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good explores some of the most pivotal relations of humanistic and scientific engagement with the world to inspire a reconsideration of them in the present. Collectively, its essays illuminate a fundamental but contested feature of a broadly humanist worldview: the hope that science may help to improve the human condition, as well as the myriad relationships of humanity to the natural and social worlds in which we live. Arguably, these relationships are now more profoundly interwoven with our sciences and technologies than ever before. Addressing scientific and other forms of inquiry, approaches to integrating humanism with science, and cases in which science has failed, succeeded, and could do more to promote our collective welfare, this book enjoins us to articulate a compelling, humanist conception of the sciences for our times. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Anjan Chakravartty is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. His research focuses on central issues in the philosophy of science, including the nature of and different interpretations of scientific knowledge, and issues of science and society, including the public understanding of science and science education. He has held professorships and visiting positions at the Universities of Toronto, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Sydney, Vienna, Bern, and Edinburgh, and is the author of Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2017) and A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
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