The customization of science : the impact of religious and political worldviews on contemporary science /

"This book explores whether and how religious and secular worldviews and political ideologies held by scientists, citizens, decision-makers and politicians influence science as practiced and understood today. In this book, customized science is defined as a science built according to - or alter...

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Other Authors: Fuller, Steve, 1959- (Editor), Stenmark, Mikael, (Editor), Zackariasson, Ulf, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Customization of Science: An Introduction to the Debate; Mikael Stenmark
  • PART I: WORLDVIEWS AND CUSTOMIZED SCIENCE
  • 2. Islam and Science; Nidhal Guessoum
  • 3. Feminism and Science; Lynn Hankinson Nelson
  • 4. Christianity and Science; Reň van Woudenberg
  • 5. Atheism and Science; Michael Ruse
  • SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS ON CUSTOMIZED SCIENCE
  • 6. Implicit and Explicit Customized Science: The Case of Evolutionary Biology; Ullica Segerstrale
  • 7. On Religious and Anti-Religious Customization of Contemporary Physics; Bengt Gustafsson
  • 8. Theology and the Origins of Customized Science; Carl Reinhold Br̄kenhielm
  • SOCIETY AND THE CUSTOMIZATION OF SCIENCE
  • 9. Customised Science as a Reflection of Protscience; Steve Fuller
  • 10. Science as Customized and Customizing; Ulf Zackariasson
  • 11. Bioconservatism as Customized Science; Adam Briggle
  • POSTSCRIPT
  • 12. The Future of the Customized Science-Debate; Ulf Zackariasson and Mikael Stenmark<br/>.