List of illustrations New preface Preface - 1993 Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The comparative study of science 2. Arabic science and the Islamic world 3. Reason and rationality in Islam and the West 4. The European legal revolution 5. Madrasas, universities, and sciences 6. Cultural climates and the ethos of science 7. Science and civilization in China 8. Science and social organization in China 9. The rise of early modern science Epilogue: educational reform and attitudes towards science since the eighteenth century Selected bibliography Index.

Galileo: Man of Science

The rise of early modern science : Islam, China, and the West

The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserl's last and most influential book, written in Nazi Germany where he was discriminated against as a Jew. It incisively identifies the urgent moral and existential crises of the age and defends the relevance of philosophy at a time of both scientific progress and political barbarism. It is also a response to Heidegger, offering Husserl's own approach to the problems of human finitude, history and culture. The Crisis introduces Husserl's influential notion of the 'life-world' – the pre-given, familiar environment that includes both 'nature' and 'culture' – and offers the best introduction to his phenomenology as both method and philosophy. Dermot Moran's rich and accessible introduction to the Crisis explains its intellectual and political context, its philosophical motivations and the themes that characterize it. His book will be invaluable for students and scholars of Husserl's work and of phenomenology in general.

Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction

The new science of motion: A study of Galileo's De motu locali

It has been remarked more than once that each generation of theorists of science makes of Galileo, the “father of modern science” by customary reckoning, a scientist after its own heart.1 Most recently Paul Feyerabend proposed that: What Galileo did was to let refuted theories support each other, that he built in this way a new world-view which was only loosely (if at all!) connected with the preceding cosmology (everyday experience included), that he established false connections with the perceptual elements of this cosmology which are only now being replaced by genuine theories (physiological optics, theory of continua), and that whenever possible he replaced old facts by a new type of experience which he simply invented for the purpose of supporting Copernicus.2

The Conception of Science in Galileo’s Work

Science has always engaged with the worldviews of societies and cultures. The theme is of particular importance at the present time as many national and provincial education authorities are requiring that students learn about the nature of science (NOS) as well as learning science content knowledge and process skills. NOS topics are being written into national and provincial curricula. Such NOS matters give rise to at least the following questions about science, science teaching and worldviews:


What is a worldview?


Does science have a worldview?


Are there specific ontological, epistemological and ethical prerequisites for the conduct of science?


Does science lack a worldview but nevertheless have implications for worldviews?


How can scientific worldviews and practice be reconciled with seemingly discordant religious and cultural worldviews?


In which ways do the worldviews of students impact on their interest and learning of science?


Should science teachers engage with the worldviews of students?

Galileo: Man of Science

Citations

The rise of early modern science : Islam, China, and the West

Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction

The new science of motion: A study of Galileo's De motu locali

The Conception of Science in Galileo’s Work

Science, Worldviews and Education

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Galileo: Man of Science

The Galileo Experience

Galileo: Two New Sciences

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