The Limited Rationality of Technology

Ingemar Nordin’s Using Knowledge: On the Rationality of Science, Technology, and Medicine is a critical rationalist examination of medicine as a social system, largely science-based, but including quackery. Thus rationality is limited, as befits the author’s fallibilism.

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Published in:Philosophy of the social sciences 2019-03, Vol.49 (2), p.160-166
Main Author: Agassi, Joseph
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Medicine
Rationality
Science and technology
Technology
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Summary:Ingemar Nordin’s Using Knowledge: On the Rationality of Science, Technology, and Medicine is a critical rationalist examination of medicine as a social system, largely science-based, but including quackery. Thus rationality is limited, as befits the author’s fallibilism.
ISSN:0048-3931
1552-7441
DOI:10.1177/0048393118814765