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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 Barnes and Noble at Bosto
	n University\, 5th floor Reading Room\, 660 Beacon St.\, Boston MA. Open to
	 the public.\n\nMartin Eger's work is the most insightful exploration of th
	e social context of the natural sciences since C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures
	\, and a vital contribution to contemporary debates over scientific literac
	y. This collection of essays deals with controversial and topical issues in
	 philosophy of science\, education\, and morality.  Also included are excha
	nges between Eger and leading philosophers\, including a dialogue with Abne
	r Shimony\, who edits this volume and contributes an account of Eger's life
	\, work\, and importance. A professional physicist\, Eger found that hermen
	eutic philosophy\, associated with Heidegger\, Gadamer\, and Habermas\, had
	 developed techniques for unpacking meanings and for analyzing human claims
	 to knowledge that strikingly parallel the theses of post-empiricist philos
	ophers of physics such as Thomas Kuhn.  Eger's application of hermeneutic m
	ethods enabled hermeneutics to be extended from social investigations to in
	vestigations of nature\, and defended the ideal of objective truth against 
	attacks by post-empiricist philosophers.\n\n"I can't think of a better intr
	oduction to current controversies in philosophy of science and morality.  E
	ger's writing is wonderfully clear.  One senses a person who is both erudit
	e and decent.  He successfully uses the methods of hermeneutics to illumina
	te science education and the impact on the public of popular books on cosmo
	logy and evolutionary biology."—Noretta Koertge\, Indiana  University.   
	                                          \n\nMartin Eger (1936-2002) recei
	ved his bachelor's degree from MIT and his doctorate from Brandeis Universi
	ty\, both in physics. He was Professor of Physics at City University of New
	 York\, College of Staten Island\, which he joined on its founding in 1967.
	 He remained there\, with a few short breaks\, throughout his professional 
	career\, teaching not only physics but also its philosophical implications.
	\n\nAbner Shimony is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Physics at Boston
	 University.  He has contributed to the foundations of quantum mechanics an
	d to scientific methodology. His writings include Search for a Naturalistic
	 World View and the popular scientific novel for children\, Tibaldo and the
	 Hole in the Calendar.
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