The Limits of Science: An Analysis from “Barriers” to “Confines”

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface: The Problem of the Limits of Science in the Present Context

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Limits as Frontiers and as Confines

Rethinking the Limits of Science: From the Difficulties Regarding the Frontiers to the Concern about the Confines

The Uncertain Frontier between Scientific Theories and Metaphysical Research Programmes

Cognitive Problems and Practical Limits: Computers and Our Limitations

Part 2: Two Poles of Analysis: Language and Ethics

Language and the Limits of Science

Ethical Limits of Science, Especially Economics

Part 3: Epistemological Limits to Science

Predicting and Knowability: The Problem of Future Knowledge

The Limits of Future Knowledge: An Analysis of Nicholas Rescher’s Epistemological Approach

The Limits of Information Science

Part 4: The Limits from Inside and the Limits from Outside

Rescher and Gadamer: Two Complementary Views of the Limits of Sciences

The Obstacles to Scientific Prediction: An Analysis of the Limits of Predictability from the Ontology of Science

Index of Names

Subject Index