{"product_id":"in-defence-of-science","title":"In Defence of Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eScience holds a central role in the modern world, yet its complex interrelationships with nature, technology, and politics are often misunderstood or seen from a false perspective. In a series of essays that make extensive use of original work by sociologists, historians, and philosophers of science, J.W. Grove explores the roles and relationships of science in modern technological society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Science can be viewed from four related perspectives. It is an expression of human curiosity – a passion to understand the natural world: what it is made of, how it is put together, and how it works. It is a body of practice – a set of ways of finding out that distinguish it from other realms of inquiry. It is a profession – a body of men and women owing allegiance to the pursuit of knowledge – and for those people, a career. And it is a prescriptive enterprise in that the increase of scientific understanding makes it possible to put nature to use in new kinds of technology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach of these aspects of science is today the focus of critical scrutiny and, often, outright hostility. With many examples, Grove exposes the threats to science today: its identification with technology, its subordination to the state, the false claims made in its name, and the popular intellectual forces that seek to denigrate it as a source of human understanding and progress.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By J.W. Grove","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575540252854,"sku":"9780802067203","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780802067203.jpg?v=1727459540","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/in-defence-of-science","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}