{"product_id":"is-science-neurotic-nicholas-maxwell-9781860945007","title":"Is Science Neurotic?","description":"Is Science Neurotic? sets out to show that science suffers from a damaging but rarely noticed methodological disease -- \"rationalistic neurosis.\" Assumptions concerning metaphysics, human value and politics, implicit in the aims of science, are repressed, and the malaise has spread to affect the whole academic enterprise, with the potential for extraordinarily damaging long-term consequences.The book begins with a discussion of the aims and methods of natural science, and moves on to discuss social science, philosophy, education, psychoanalytic theory and academic inquiry as a whole. It makes an original and compelling contribution to the current debate between those for and those against science, arguing that science would be of greater human value if it were more rigorous -- we suffer not from too much scientific rationality, but too little. The author discusses the need for a revolution in the aims of science and academic inquiry in general and, in a lively and accessible style, spells out a thesis with profound importance for the long-term future of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicholas Maxwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1860945007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781860945007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Imperial College Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.58w x 0.78d","brand":"Nicholas Maxwell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088929337599,"sku":"9781860945007","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_146ec319-f9f6-4851-b747-fa31199a6f25.jpg?v=1769107333","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/is-science-neurotic-nicholas-maxwell-9781860945007","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}