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A Sociological Evaluation of The Meeting of East and West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Frank E. Hartung
Frank E. Hartung*
Affiliation:
Wayne University
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A major problem of the philosophy of science is the construction of a comprehensive science of man and the universe. The sociology of science has a part to play in this tremendous task by indicating the extra-scientific influences bearing upon science at any given period, assisting, in this way, in developing a self-consciousness of science. It is believed that this self-consciousness is necessary to a scientific appraisal of the method of scientific inquiry, as well as being necessary to any attempt to direct the development of science as an institution. This paper is to be regarded as a sociological evaluation of a work in the field of the philosophy of science, namely, F. S. C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 1950 , pp. 229 - 237
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1950

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References

1 F. S. C. Northrop, The Meeting of East and West. The Macmillan Company, 1946. Pp. 531. I used this as the textbook in my “Sociology of Science” course during the Spring semester of the 1948–1949 academic year.