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Can We Save Science?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Elgin Williams
Elgin Williams*
Affiliation:
University of Washington
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Abstract

Everyone is agreed that mankind today finds itself virtually swimming in crises. The typical discussion of every world problem is so fraught with a sense of urgency, so steeped in the hyperbole of danger, that the discussions would be funny were they not so tragic.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , October 1948 , pp. 333 - 341
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1948

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Footnotes

1

A review article based on George A. Lundberg, Can Science Save Us? (New York, 1947).

References

2 Talcott Parsons, “Some Aspects of the Relation Between Social Science and Ethics,” Social Science, Vol. 22, no. 3 (July 1947) p. 216.