In many respects “science” is what it means to be “modern” and, in the 20th century, science would be inextricably entangled with all the hopes and fears of modernity, but how should we see science in our own “post-modern” world?

Comparisons with the Reformation might help

(old paper of mine)
#science #authority #modernity #postmodernity #Renaissance
https://literacyofthepresent.wordpress.com/writing-2/the-authority-of-science-and-the-postmodern-reformation/.

The Authority of Science and the Postmodern Reformation

First published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews June 2003, pp76-82 By the end of the 19th century the professional consolidation of science had brought prestige to the nascent scientific commu…

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