Showing papers by "Evelyn Fox Keller published in 1984"
01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: The promise and the threat of scientific Utopias are both born out of the equation between science and power as mentioned in this paper, and the Baconian vision of science defines both the conjunction and the dilemma of science and Utopia.
Abstract: The promise and the threat of scientific Utopias are often mentioned in the same breath; they are both born out of the equation between science and power. By offering man ‘power and sovereignty’ over the natural environment, and the reduction of nature to a realm of law, the Baconian vision of science defines both the conjunction and the dilemma of science and Utopia. As Davis sees it, the questions that this offer leaves with us are two: First, is man “fit to receive the power which science [can] convey into his hands?” And second, is science not, “in these circumstances, a self-consuming artifact?” (1)
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