Stephen Brush once asked, “Should the history of science be rated ‘X’?” Well, times have changed. Now controversy reigns over the role of sociology in the science classroom. Here, I profile several dimensions of the sociology of science and survey recent efforts by philosophers to address its most radical claims. In respecting the opposing poles of this contentious debate, I contend that it is ...

ion. Scientific views of Man have been organized into systems of anthro pology, physiology, psychology, and sociology, each of which has presented Man as an object an object to be defined, categorized, and manipulated like any nonhuman phe nomenon. This emphasis upon scientism and its empirical view of Man has been mutually reinforcing with the emerging tech nologic rationality of the past cent...

Many scholars and historians of Chinese medicine and science, in China as well as in the West, have claimed that the ancient Chinese, in particular the unknown authors of the medical classic Huangdi Neijing , anticipated William Harvey’s monumental discovery of the circulation of the blood ( xueye xunhuan) by more than two thousand years. This view has been widely accepted in both China and the...

There is a distinct relationship between the multiverse theory and perception of truth when viewed through lens German Idealism. At their core, both theories are concerned with movement, or constant state flux. This paper draws two analogies First, Kant’s “the thing-in-itself” posited as rejection idea unified universe. Second, similarities drawn how can be seen layers shifting reality Hegel’s ...

Observational cinema is one of the most controversial forms of visual anthropology. After its inception in the 1970s, it was initially praised as a breakthrough in ethnographic filmmaking. However, since then it has suffered years of neglect and heavy criticism, mostly directed at its naïvité, alleged scientism and illusion of objectivity. The time has finally come for a revision of those claim...

Human Resource (HR) algorithms are now widely used for decision making in the field of HR. In this paper, we examine how biases may become entrenched HR algorithms, which often designed without consultation with specialists, assumed to operate scientific objectivity and viewed as instruments beyond scrutiny. Using three orienting concepts such scientism, illusio rationales, demonstrate why go u...

Locker's writing is complex, flowery, and often singularly poetic. The reader is invited to read Locker's last paragraph in order to appreciate the editor's task. Yet, I have interfered only minimally because Professor Locker's underlying ideas and reasoning are highly original and a price must be paid for understanding them – by the reader and the author equally. Locker turns our attention to ...