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SUMMARY:Science\, Understanding\, and Justice
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Abner Shimony\n\nReadings from and discussions of Mar
	tin Eger's Science\, Understanding\, and Justice (Open Court\, 2006\, edite
	d by Abner Shimony\, who is the reader)\n\nAt The Harvard Book Store\, 1256
	 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge MA. Repeating at Boston University\, detail
	s here. Both readings are open to the public.\n\nMartin Eger's work is the 
	most insightful exploration of the social context of the natural sciences s
	ince C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures\, and a vital contribution to contemporar
	y debates over scientific literacy. This collection of essays deals with co
	ntroversial and topical issues in philosophy of science\, education\, and m
	orality.  Also included are exchanges between Eger and leading philosophers
	\, including a dialogue with Abner Shimony\, who edits this volume and cont
	ributes an account of Eger's life\, work\, and importance. A professional p
	hysicist\, Eger found that hermeneutic philosophy\, associated with Heidegg
	er\, Gadamer\, and Habermas\, had developed techniques for unpacking meanin
	gs and for analyzing human claims to knowledge that strikingly parallel the
	 theses of post-empiricist philosophers of physics such as Thomas Kuhn.  Eg
	er's application of hermeneutic methods enabled hermeneutics to be extended
	 from social investigations to investigations of nature\, and defended the 
	ideal of objective truth against attacks by post-empiricist philosophers.\n
	\n"I can't think of a better introduction to current controversies in philo
	sophy of science and morality.  Eger's writing is wonderfully clear.  One s
	enses a person who is both erudite and decent.  He successfully uses the me
	thods of hermeneutics to illuminate science education and the impact on the
	 public of popular books on cosmology and evolutionary biology."—Noretta 
	Koertge\, Indiana  University.                                             
	\n\nMartin Eger (1936-2002) received his bachelor's degree from MIT and his
	 doctorate from Brandeis University\, both in physics. He was Professor of 
	Physics at City University of New York\, College of Staten Island\, which h
	e joined on its founding in 1967. He remained there\, with a few short brea
	ks\, throughout his professional career\, teaching not only physics but als
	o its philosophical implications.\n\nAbner Shimony is Emeritus Professor of
	 Philosophy and Physics at Boston University.  He has contributed to the fo
	undations of quantum mechanics and to scientific methodology. His writings 
	include Search for a Naturalistic World View and the popular scientific nov
	el for children\, Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar.
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