Challenges to the enlightenment : in defense of reason and science / edited by Paul Kurtz and Timoth...
Challenges to the enlightenment : in defense of reason and science / edited by Paul Kurtz and Timoth...
Challenges to the enlightenment : in defense of reason and science / edited by Paul Kurtz and Timothy J. Madigan for the Academy of Humanism.
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Publisher
Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1994.
Date
1994.
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T0390832
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Language
English
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Physical content
319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Preface / Paul Kurtz -- 1. Toward a New Enlightenment / Paul Kurtz -- 2. Counter-Enlightenment in Contemporary Social Studies / Mario Bunge -- 3. Hostility to Science / John Passmore -- 4. Emancipation Through Knowledge / Karl Popper -- 5. The Case for a New American Pragmatism / Thelma Z. Lavine --...
17. Science and the Making of Society in Latin America / Jose Leite Lopes -- 18. The Need of the Third World for Humanism / Indumati Parikh -- 19. Peace and Progress / Mourad Wahba -- 20. The Terrors of Islam / Antony Flew -- 21. A Humanist Perspective for Britain / Bernard Crick -- 22. The Difficul...
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Publisher
Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1994.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1994.
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Challenges to the enlightenment : in defense of reason and science / edited by Paul Kurtz and Timothy J. Madigan for the Academy of Humanism.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Transferred from N501/297.
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T0390832
Record Identifier
74VKOwoGjQjO
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ISBN
0879758694 (acid-free paper) :
9780879758691 (acid-free paper) :
DDC
501
MMS ID
991022369449702626
