The Owen G. Holmes lectures present
Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Recently, lively debates have emerged in the social sciences about how to think about the unexpected return of religion to the public sphere. This phenomenon has occurred not only in modernizing societies around the globe, but also in modern Western democracies. Scientific rationality and technical expertise have always been regarded as the most powerful forces for modernization. Yet It turns out that Western secularism is in central respects deeply Christian and even Protestant, and that there are multiple secularisms--at least one for each religion. How multicultural and democratic can Western (secular) modernization be in light of such circumstances? This presentation will sort out some of the implications of these discussions for philosophies of science.
Sandra Harding studies research methodology, feminism, and postcolonial theory. She has written several books, including The Racial Economy of Science and Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
7pm in PE250, 1st Choice Savings Centre, U of L campus
Secularism, Multiculturalism, and Democracy: Philosophy of Science Issues
A lecture by Sandra Harding
Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Recently, lively debates have emerged in the social sciences about how to think about the unexpected return of religion to the public sphere. This phenomenon has occurred not only in modernizing societies around the globe, but also in modern Western democracies. Scientific rationality and technical expertise have always been regarded as the most powerful forces for modernization. Yet It turns out that Western secularism is in central respects deeply Christian and even Protestant, and that there are multiple secularisms--at least one for each religion. How multicultural and democratic can Western (secular) modernization be in light of such circumstances? This presentation will sort out some of the implications of these discussions for philosophies of science.
Sandra Harding studies research methodology, feminism, and postcolonial theory. She has written several books, including The Racial Economy of Science and Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
7pm in PE250, 1st Choice Savings Centre, U of L campus
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