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 philosophy of science and were connected to the department he created at the London School of Economics. In the introductory chapter, Maxwell provides an overview of his thought and then defends his views against objections in a concluding essay.
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Science and the Pursuit of Wisdom
Studies in the Philosophy of Nicholas Maxwell
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Deconstruction in PhilosophyTable of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- How Can Life Of Value Best Flourish in the Real World
- Sonnets on Wisdom
- Nicholas Maxwell in Context
- Prolegomena To a Critique of PureWisdom
- Why is it so Hard to Move fromKnowledge to Wisdom?
- The Urgent Need for an IntellectualRevolution: Maxwell's Version
- No Easy Answers:Wisdom and Cognitive Science
- How Should Research be Organised? AnAlternative to the UK ResearchAssessment Exercise
- Our Place in Nature
- Maxwell on Free Will, Science andDeterminism
- Limits of Physicalism
- Metaphysics and Methodology: Aim-Oriented Empiricism
- Popper and Maxwell on ScientificProgress
- Replies and Reflections
- Selected Publications ofNicholas Maxwell
- Notes on Contributors
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