Ideas on the Nature of Science

by Wendell Berry, David Abram, Ian Hacking, et al.

Book Overview

If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything was subject to science, but science itself has largely escaped scrutiny. In this fascinating collection of interviews, CBC Radio's Ideas producer David Cayley talks to some of the world's most provocative thinkers about how the ideas of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864925441
• ISBN13: 9780864925442
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"