Can there be "forbidden"--or, as I prefer, "inopportune" knowledge? Could there be knowledge, the possession of which, at a given time and stage of social development, would be inimical to human welfare-and even fatal to the further accumulation of knowledge? Could it be that just as the information latent in the genome of a developing organism must be revealed in an orderly pattern, else disaster ensue, so must our knowledge of the universe be acquired in a measured order, else disaster ensue
We are in a state of impending crisis. And the fault lies in part with academia. For two centuries o...
In this article, I would like to argue that interdisciplinarity belongs to the very nature of knowl...
This paper raises a problem for so-called safety-based conceptions of knowledge: It is argued that n...
Can there be "forbidden"--or, as I prefer, "inopportune" knowledge? Could there be knowledge, the p...
In this paper a new conception of science is defined, which opposes apocalyptic points of view —scie...
ABSTRACT: The discourse on risk carried out in the scientific community for some time now has drawn ...
Does scientific knowledge have limits? This chapter tries to answer this question by first investiga...
Many contemporary epistemologists hold that a subject S’s true belief that p counts as knowledge onl...
In the Age of Biotechnology, there is no more pressing question than whether a philosophy of science...
Must we appeal to the notion of knowledge, in the subjective sense typically discussed by epistemolo...
It is not likely that we will ever convincingly know how and why we came to be on this planet; of co...
If science disputes the validity or authenticity of religious knowledge it is because both...
The most prominent manifestation of intrasystemic ignorance is the concept of risk as situated in an...
Within the pandemic scenario the relationship between science and human life, has been often distort...
The emergence and dissemination of a discourse which has legitimated the privileging of science over...
We are in a state of impending crisis. And the fault lies in part with academia. For two centuries o...
In this article, I would like to argue that interdisciplinarity belongs to the very nature of knowl...
This paper raises a problem for so-called safety-based conceptions of knowledge: It is argued that n...
Can there be "forbidden"--or, as I prefer, "inopportune" knowledge? Could there be knowledge, the p...
In this paper a new conception of science is defined, which opposes apocalyptic points of view —scie...
ABSTRACT: The discourse on risk carried out in the scientific community for some time now has drawn ...
Does scientific knowledge have limits? This chapter tries to answer this question by first investiga...
Many contemporary epistemologists hold that a subject S’s true belief that p counts as knowledge onl...
In the Age of Biotechnology, there is no more pressing question than whether a philosophy of science...
Must we appeal to the notion of knowledge, in the subjective sense typically discussed by epistemolo...
It is not likely that we will ever convincingly know how and why we came to be on this planet; of co...
If science disputes the validity or authenticity of religious knowledge it is because both...
The most prominent manifestation of intrasystemic ignorance is the concept of risk as situated in an...
Within the pandemic scenario the relationship between science and human life, has been often distort...
The emergence and dissemination of a discourse which has legitimated the privileging of science over...
We are in a state of impending crisis. And the fault lies in part with academia. For two centuries o...
In this article, I would like to argue that interdisciplinarity belongs to the very nature of knowl...
This paper raises a problem for so-called safety-based conceptions of knowledge: It is argued that n...