The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age /
Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science's - and his own personal - quest...
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New York :
Central European University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Scott F. Gilbert
- Beginnings
- On ways of knowing
- Transitions
- Rewriting immunology
- The immune self
- Systems philosophically considered
- Pursuing the enigmatic self
- Rethinking science
- Outline of a post-positivist philosophy of science
- A new agenda
- Personalizing science
- Moral epistemology
- Requiem for the ego
- Identity reconsidered
- On personal uncertainty.