The proper ambition of science / edited by M.W.F. Stone and Jonathan Wolff.

London : Routledge, 2000.

viii, 231 pages ; 23 cm.

Science, philosophy and human life in the Ancient World / R.W. Sharples.-- Theology, philosophy and 'science' in the thirteenth century : the case of Albert the Great / M.W.F. Stone.-- The seventeenth century and the reconstruction of knowledge / G.A.J. Rogers.-- The end of hierarchy : physics and metaphysics in the scientific revolution / J.R. Milton.-- Science in the service of life : Nietzsche's objectivism / Aaron Ridley.-- Pragmatism : commonsense and the limits of science / Christopher Hookway.-- Husserl and the crisis of the European sciences / Dermot Morgan.-- Some scientism, some historicism, some critics : Hayek's and Popper's critiques revisited / Thomas E. Uebel.-- The rise of physicalism / David Papineau.-- Against the completability of science / Nancy Cartwright.

Includes bibliographical references and index.