Antiscience
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Antiscience is a position critical of science and the scientific method. People holding antiscientific views are generally skeptical that science is an objective method, as it purports to be, or that it generates universal knowledge. They also contend that scientific reductionism in particular is an inherently limited means to reach understanding of the complex world we live in. Antiscience proponents also criticize what they perceive as the unquestioned privilege, power and influence science seems to wield in society, industry and politics; they object to what they regard as an arrogant or closed-minded attitude amongst scientists. Antiscience can refer both to New Age and postmodernist movements associated with the political Left, and to socially conservative and fundamentalist movements associated with the political Right.
See also
- Anti-intellectualism
- Bruno Latour
- Climate change denial
- Constructivist epistemology
- Counter-enlightenment
- Denialism
- Ernst Cassirer
- Faith and rationality
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Giambattista Vico
- Greedy reductionism
- Holism
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Johann Georg Hamann
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Scientific mythology
- Scientism
- Technophobia
- Philosophy of Science
- Politicization of science
- Postmodernism
- Science
- Pseudoscience
- Pseudoscepticism
- Sokal Affair
- William Blake
- William Morris
- William R. Steiger
