Jason Blakely: We Built Reality | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780190087388 | We Built Reality | Jason Blakely | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2020

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Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically changed the world today. The abuse of popular scientific authority has catastrophic consequences, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis; the failure to predict the rise of Donald Trump; increased tensions between poor communities and the police; and the sidelining of nonscientific forms of knowledge and wisdom. In We Built Reality, Jason Blakely explains how recent social science theories have not simply described political realities but also helped create them. But he also offers readers a way out of the culture of scientism: hermeneutics, or the art of interpretation. Hermeneutics urges sensitivity to the historical and cultural contexts of human behavior. It gives ordinary people a way to appreciate the insights of the humanities in guiding decisions. As Blakely contends, we need insights from the humanities to see how social science theories never simply neutrally describe reality, they also help build it.

Über den Autor

Jason Blakely is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University. He is the author of Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism and, with Mark Bevir, of Interpretive Social Science (Oxford).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Election Day 2016

Part I: The Market Polis

Chapter 1. Our Free Market Scientists

Chapter 2. Republic Inc.

Part II: I, Robot

Chapter 3. Genes and Machines

Chapter 4. The Machinist Ethos

Part III: Scientific Violence

Chapter 5. Sciences of Zero Tolerance

Chapter 6. Empire of Light

Conclusion: Reading Social Science Again

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780190087388
ISBN-10:	0190087382
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Blakely, Jason
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	210 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Jason Blakely
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.07.2020
Gewicht:	0,233 kg