Scientism Isn’t Science

Second Hand Smoke via First Things ^ | Wesley J. Smith

[Pride_of_the_Bluegrass]

There has been an attempt ongoing for some time to harness the respectability of science and conflate it with an increasingly popular philosophy known as scientism. But scientism and science are different things. The latter is a powerful method of obtaining and applying material facts and information. The latter creates a subjective world view using the pretense that science has the capacity to tell us objectively right from wrong, the ethical from the unethical, best from worst, etc..

[microgood]

I always refer to scientism as post-modern reductionism.

[Kevmo]

I’ve been gradually adding various articles to the scientism keyword, and this one obviously belonged there. Thanks for posting this.

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks Pride_of_the_Bluegrass.

The Scientist vs The Humanist ed by George Levine and Owen P. Thomas W W Norton & Co; (June 1963)

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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