NDLI: Science as instrumental reason: Heidegger, Habermas, Heisenberg

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Author	Carson, Cathryn
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	In modern continental thought, natural science is widely portrayed as an exclusively instrumental mode of reason. The breadth of this consensus has partly preempted the question of how it came to persuade. The process of persuasion, as it played out in Germany, can be explored by reconstructing the intellectual exchanges among three twentieth-century theorists of science, Heidegger, Habermas, and Werner Heisenberg. Taking an iconic Heisenberg as a kind of limiting case of “the scientist,” Heidegger and Habermas each found themselves driven to place new constraints on their previously more capacious assessments of science, especially its capacity to reflect on its method. Tracing how that happened, through archival and historical contextualization and close readings of their texts, lets us make visible Heidegger and Habermas’s intellectual affinities and argumentative parallels, which derived not only from their shared grounding in earlier reactions against positivism, but also from confrontation with contemporary events. The latter included, for Heidegger, the rise of a technically powerful science exemplified by nuclear physics, and for Habermas, post-World War II controversies over science, technology, and their socially critical possibilities.
Starting Page	483
Ending Page	509
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13872842
Journal	Continental Philosophy Review
Volume Number	42
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15731103
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-12-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Martin Heidegger Jürgen Habermas Werner Heisenberg Instrumental rationality Science Positivism Political Philosophy Philosophy of Man Phenomenology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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