Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 329.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 07:04:23 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: For and Against Method, Eric Higgs on _Technology and the
Good Life?_ & The Road since Structure
Dear humanist scholars,
Hello --some new books, sounds interesting --thought --might interest
you..thanks!
Title: Lakatos, Imre: For and Against Method
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Paul Feyerabend said : "In 1970 Imre cornered me at a party. 'Paul,' he
said, 'you have such strange ideas. Why don't you write them down? I
shall write a reply, we publish the whole thing and I promise you--we
shall have a lot of fun.'" Lakatos died before he could write his
reply, but this book reconstructs his counter-arguments from lectures
and correspondence previously unpublished in English--two eminent
philosophers matching their wits and ideas on the subject of the
scientific method.
For more information, see the book synopsis at
<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13766.ctl>
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Title: Higgs, Eric: Technology and the Good Life?
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed
to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of
machines and systems? How can philosophy help us to make technology a
servant rather than a master? Technology and the Good Life? uses a
careful collective analysis of Albert Borgmann's controversial and
influential ideas as a jumping-off point from which to address
questions such as these.
For more information, see the book synopsis at
<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14056.ctl>
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Title: Kuhn, Thomas S.: The Road since Structure
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
The fullest record we have of the new direction Kuhn was taking during
the last two decades of his life. The first part consists of essays in
which Kuhn refines the basic concepts set forth in Structure--paradigm
shifts, incommensurability, and the nature of scientific progress. In
part II, Kuhn replies to many of the criticisms of his earlier work.
The third part is the transcript of a remarkable autobiographical
interview conducted in Athens in 1995.
For more information, see the book synopsis at
<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14038.ctl>
Sincerely yours
Arun Tripathi
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