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1 online resource (332 pages) |
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Preface; How Can Life Of Value Best Flourish in the Real World; 1. The Urgent Need for an Intellectual Revolution; 2. Two Fundamental Problems; 3. Autobiographical Remarks; 4. What Kind of Inquiry Can Best Help Life of Value to Flourish?; 5. The Human World/Physical Universe Problem; 6. Connections Between the Two Problems; Sonnets on Wisdom; Faustus in us; Wise at heart; The Way Of Wisdom; The Spirit of Wisdom; Nicholas Maxwell in Context; 1. Introduction; 2. New Academic Courses, Programs and Departments Formed inResponse to Human Problems |
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3. Academic Research Associated with "What is of Value in Life"4. Wisdom Education; 5. Conclusion; Prolegomena To a Critique of PureWisdom; 1. Why Wisdom Is Unloved by Western Philosophers; 2. Wisdom as the Enemy of Prophecy and Progress; 3. Is 'Maxwellian Wisdom' Really Wisdom or Simply FinalizedScience?; Why is it so Hard to Move fromKnowledge to Wisdom?; 1. Introduction; 2. Why not? -- The Social Dimension; 3. Tyranny and Voluntary Servitude; 4. Capitalism; 6. Epilogue; The Urgent Need for an IntellectualRevolution: Maxwell's Version; 1. Introduction |
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2. The Advocacy of Knowledge without Wisdom3. For Wisdom to Take Over; 4. Decisions about Agendas; 5. Agendas as Coordinating Institutions; 6. Agendas in History; 7. Political Agendas; 8. Muddling Through Agendas; 9. Conclusion; No Easy Answers:Wisdom and Cognitive Science; 1. Introduction; 2. Computers and Cognitive Science; 3. Computers and the Military; 4. Military Themes; 5. Keeping One's Hands Clean; 6. Might-Have-Beens and Might-Bes; 7. Is Un-Wisdom Built In?; 8. Conclusion; How Should Research be Organised? AnAlternative to the UK ResearchAssessment Exercise; 1. Introduction |
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2. Critique of the RAE. Throwing Away the Pink Diamonds3. Why the RAE Makes Teaching Worse; 4. Why Rewarding Teaching Will Improve Research; Our Place in Nature; 1. Introduction; 2. A Starting-Point: a Take on Popper's Epistemology; 3. Reduction; 4. Maxwell and Popper on Our Place in Nature; 5. Some Argument; 6. Conclusion; Maxwell on Free Will, Science andDeterminism; 1. Introduction; 2. Multiaspectism; 3. Science or Determinism?; 4. Evolution and Rationality; 5. The End of Determinism?; Limits of Physicalism; 1. Introduction; 2. Outline of HWPU and my Disagreement |
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3. Maxwell's Argument for Physicalism4. A Contrary Viewpoint; 5. Reasonable Decision-making; 6. The Evolution of Purpose; Metaphysics and Methodology: Aim-Oriented Empiricism; 1. AOE and Maxwell's Critique of Standard Empiricism (SE); 2. SE and Criticisms of Maxwell's AOE; 3. Conclusion; Popper and Maxwell on ScientificProgress; 1. Introduction; 2. Popper's Falsification and Explanation; 3. Maxwell's Critique: Aim Oriented Empiricism; 4. Evaluation; 5. Conclusion; Replies and Reflections; Selected Publications ofNicholas Maxwell; Notes on Contributors |
| Summary |
Nicholas Maxwell's provocative and highly-original philosophy of science urges a revolution in academic inquiry affecting all branches of learning, so that the single-minded pursuit of knowledge is replaced with the aim of helping people realize what is of value in life and make progress toward a more civilized world. This volume of essays from an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars engages Maxwell in critical evaluation and celebrates his contribution to philosophy spanning forty years. Several of the contributors, like Maxwell, took their inspiration from Sir Karl Popper's phi |
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Zahlr. Abb |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Maxwell, Nicholas, 1937- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Maxwell, Nicholas, 1937- fast |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Wisdom -- Philosophy
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Science -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110319439 |
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3110319438 |
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9783110319101 |
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3110319101 |
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