What is it about?
A review of a book which expounds a crude version of a conception of science spelled out in two earlier books: N. Maxwell, From Knowledge to Wisdom (Blackwell, 1984); and N. Maxwell, The Comprehensibility of the Universe (OUP, 1998).
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Why is it important?
We ugently need to transform science so that there is a more honest recognizition of the problematic aims of science that have assumptions about metaphysics, values and politics inherent in them. And more broadly, we need urgently to transform academia so that it becomes rationally devoted to helping us solve global problems and thus make progress towards a better, wiser world.
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A review of a book that seems to have provoked a great deal of subsequent work on the metaphysics of science - all of which ignores the vital point that physics makes highly problmatic metaphysical assumptions about the nature of the universe.
Nicholas Maxwell
University College London
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This page is a summary of: The Metaphysics of Science: An Account of Modern Science in Terms of Principles, Laws and Theories, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, July 2009, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02698590903007220.
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