The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age

Name: The Triumph of Uncertainty : Science and Self in the Postmodern Age
Brand: Central European University Press

Central European University Press

The Triumph of UncertaintyScience and Self in the Postmodern Age\nAuthor(s): Alfred I. Tauber\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Central European University Press, Hungary\nImprint: Central European University Press\nISBN-13: 9789633865811, 978-9633865811\nSynopsis\nTauber, 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 sciences and his own personal quest for explanatory certainty.\n\nDuring the 20th century, that goal was displaced by the probabilistic epistemologies required to characterize complex systems, whether in physics, biology, economics, or the social sciences. This triumph of uncertainty is the inevitable outcome of irreducible chance and indeterminate causality. And beyond these epistemological limits, the interpretative faculties of the individual scientist (what Michael Polan.