Ebook > Non-Fiction > Philosophy / Religion > Philosophy - General > Jason Blakely: We Built Reality (PDF)

Jason Blakely
We Built Reality
How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics, and Power

Support

Cover of Jason Blakely: We Built Reality (PDF)

Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically changed the world today. The abuse of popular scientific authority has catastrophic consequences, contributing to the 2008 financial crisis; the failure to predict the rise of Donald Trump; increased tensions between poor communities and the police; and the sidelining of nonscientific forms of knowledge and wisdom. In We Built Reality, Jason Blakely explains how recent social science theories have not simply described political realities but also helped create them. But he also offers readers a way out of the culture of scientism: hermeneutics, or the art of interpretation. Hermeneutics urges sensitivity to the historical and cultural contexts of human behavior. It gives ordinary people a way to appreciate the insights of the humanities in guiding decisions. As Blakely contends, we need insights from the humanities to see how social science theories never simply neutrally describe reality, they also help build it.

€25.62

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9780190087395 ● Publisher Oxford University Press ● Published 2020 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8100991 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

46,708 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Jesse Henry Jones: Know The Truth A Critique On The Hamiltonian Theory Of Limitation

Jesse Henry Jones: Know The Truth A Critique On The Hamiltonian Theory Of Limitation

"Know The Truth: A Critique On The Hamiltonian Theory Of Limitation" by Jesse Henry Jones is a seminal work in philosophical critique, delving into the realms of epistemology and …

Cover of Ayelet Shachar: Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility

Ayelet Shachar: Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility

The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times. We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed …

Cover of Sarah Covington & Kathryn (Fordham University, USA) Reklis: Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts

Sarah Covington & Kathryn (Fordham University, USA) Reklis: Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts

The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding stereotype that Protestants did away with art and material culture. Rather than rej …

Cover of Seiso Paul (Director, Realizational Practice Studies Center, Guiding Teacher, Two Rivers Zen Community, USA.) Cooper: Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action

Seiso Paul (Director, Realizational Practice Studies Center, Guiding Teacher, Two Rivers Zen Community, USA.) Cooper: Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action

Drawing from original source material, contemporary scholarship, and Wilfred Bion s psychoanalytic writings, Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting introduces the Zen notion of …

Cover of E. F. B. Fell: The Foundations of Liberty

E. F. B. Fell: The Foundations of Liberty

Originally published in 1908, this book aims at setting forth liberty, personal and national – not as a mere utility as is usually the case – but as an a priori moral necessity, the sine qua non of …

Cover of Morny Joy & Kathleen O'Grady: Religion in French Feminist Thought

Morny Joy & Kathleen O’Grady: Religion in French Feminist Thought

Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Perspectives brings together some of the leading modern religious responses to major French feminist writings on religion. It considers central figures s …

Cover of Kevin C. Klement: Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference

Kevin C. Klement: Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference

This book aims to develop certain aspects of Gottlob Frege”s theory of meaning, especially those relevant to intentional logic. It offers a new interpretation of the nature of senses, and attempts …

Cover of Dr Robert M. Wallace: Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present

Dr Robert M. Wallace: Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present

Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism”s claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more “inner” reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading …

Cover of Dr Matias Slavov: Hume''s Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science

Dr Matias Slavov: Hume”s Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Physical Science

This book contextualizes David Hume”s philosophy of physical science, exploring both Hume”s background in the history of early modern natural philosophy and its subsequent impact on the scientific …

Cover of Professor Ugo (University of Oxford, UK) Zilioli: Atomism in Philosophy

Professor Ugo (University of Oxford, UK) Zilioli: Atomism in Philosophy

The nature of matter and the idea of indivisible parts has fascinated philosophers, historians, scientists and physicists from antiquity to the present day. This collection covers the richness of its …