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Our sciences ruled by human prejudice : humanly necessary causal blindness persisting even in sciences

Title
Our sciences ruled by human prejudice : humanly necessary causal blindness persisting even in sciences / D.G. Garan.
Author
Garan, D. G.
Publication
  • New York : Philosophical Library, [1987.
  • ©1987.

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Description
xi, 420 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"The central idea of this book is the causal relativity of value experiences, which ultimately constitute the universe of man or everything he feels and knows. That relativity results from the fact that our inner values derive from their opposites"--p. vii
Subject
  • Values
  • Causation
  • Relativity
  • Knowledge, Theory of
  • Philosophy
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Science
  • Causality
  • epistemology
  • philosophy
  • sciences (philosophy)
  • science (modern discipline)
  • Relativity
  • Knowledge, Theory of
  • Causation
  • Values
  • Kausalität
  • Vorurteil
  • Wertordnung
  • Wertorientierung
  • Wissenschaft
  • Wissenschaftstheorie
  • Waarden
  • Causaliteit
  • Vooroordelen
  • Wetenschappen
  • Science > Philosophy
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 405-412.
Contents
Humanly inevitable causal prejudice -- Unbelievable, admitted causal mysteries in medicine -- Alchemistic causal logic in psychiatry and psychology -- Causal confusion in behavioral and social sciences -- Our humanistic thought a causal obstacle to progress -- Admitted causal mysteries even in theoretical physics -- How can living nature be so unfathomably clever?
ISBN
  • 0802225071
  • 9780802225078
LCCN
86002495
OCLC
  • ocm13214650
  • 13214650
  • SCSB-1167397
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library