Is Scientific Knowledge Rational?

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Author:Halil Rahman Acar
Edition:Hardcover
ISBN:9786055949068
Language:English
Pages:245
Dimensions:15.5 x 23.5 cm (6.1 x 9.3 in)
Publisher:Insan Publications
Year of Publication:2008 CE

In what sense is it rational?This study is one of the most comprehensive investigations on rationality and science in this field. It attempts to disclose the nature of rationality. It seeks to develop a coherent account of rationality, based on the notion of 'fundamenrtal rationality' as the common ground of all rationalities  and the 'situated rationalitues.'

The dominance of science as well as its status are indisputable in today's culture. Today, while rationality has come to be identified with science, natural science is considered to be the best instance of rational thought. Halil Rahman Acar expounds the problem of rationality that has always been a core philosophical issue as it is today. Acar presents to us, rationality, not only as an issue of science or philosophy, but also of ethics, religion, psychology, sociology and anthropology. He critiques the identification of scientific knowledge with rationality. Rationality, as Acar develops, should be considered as an alternative system of interpreting knowledge which seeks a synthesis between extreme pools. This study, while examining the very notion of rationality, leading to truth and science, questions the assumed paradigm of human rationality in reference to its nature and the concepts of objectivity, truth and progress in science.

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Author:
Halil Rahman Acar
Edition:
Hardcover
ISBN:
9786055949068
Language:
  • English
Pages:
245
Dimensions:
15.5 x 23.5 cm (6.1 x 9.3 in)
Publisher:
Insan Publications
Year of Publication:
2008 CE

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