Mere Science: Mapping the Land Bridge Between Emotion, Politics, and Ethics
Lisa Sideris's Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World (2017) proposes that the call by some science advocates for a new moral framework based on scientific wonder is flawed. Sideris develops a typology of "wonder" with two separate affective axes: "true wo...
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| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Zygon
Year: 2019, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 382-386 |
| Review of: | Consecrating science (Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017) (Schaefer, Donovan O.)
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Science
/ Emotion
/ Ethics
/ Politics
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Ethics
B Book review B Bruno Latour B Climate Change B Affect B Lisa Sideris B Wonder |
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| Summary: | Lisa Sideris's Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World (2017) proposes that the call by some science advocates for a new moral framework based on scientific wonder is flawed. Sideris develops a typology of "wonder" with two separate affective axes: "true wonder" that is the prerogative of a sort of dwelling with the overwhelming mystery of life, and "curiosity" that presses to resolve puzzles and break through into a space of total clarity. The former, Sideris writes, is an ethical resource that, by placing the human self against the backdrop of the unknowable cosmic expanse, prompts humility and genuine admiration for nature. The latter is the theater of "mere science." This essay follows suit with Sideris's line of questioning, but also pushes back on the correlation of wonder with ethical attentiveness and proposes ways that science in its puzzle-solving mode can be brought back into the ethical conversation. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Wonder Sustained (2019)"
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12510 |