Between science and values
Loren R. Graham.
- New York Columbia University Press 1981
- x, 449 p. 24 cm
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [415]-439.
pt. 1. The physical sciences: Physical knowledge and values: The new physics -- Physical knowledge and society: Eddington and the English-speaking world ; Fock and the Soviet Union ; Heisenberg and Germany ; Bergson, Monod, and France -- pt. 2. The biological sciences: Biological knowledge and values: Studying animals to learn about man ; Primatology and sociobiology -- Biological knowledge and society: Eugenics: Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia ; Biomedical ethics -- pt. 3. Reactions to the dilemma of science and values: Public concerns about science and technology: the question of limits of inquiry -- Attempts to provide a philosophical overview -- pt. 4. What kind of expansionism do we want?: Science and values: attempts at historical understanding.