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A Science of Mars or of Venus?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Mary Tiles
Mary Tiles
Affiliation:
Royal Institute of Philosophy
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For as long as there has been anything worthy of the name of science, there have been those who have criticized its claim to superior knowledge. With the birth and prodigious growth of modern science, the corresponding growthof critical opinion led, in the eighteenth century, to a divorce of the sciences from the humanities around which our educational institutions, and our universities in particular, have been built. It is this divorce which renders problematic the status of the social or human sciences. For the extent to which Man can be an object of scientific knowledge will be questioned by those insisting on an opposition between human knowledge and values as embodied in the humanities, and the dehumanized objective knowledge proclaimed within the natural sciences.

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Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 62 , Issue 241 , July 1987 , pp. 293 - 306
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1987

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