Science and Culture

1. Autonomy.- 1.1 Science fiction: this message is for you. Maybe.- 1.2 The consolations of science.- 1.3 The moral base of science, or, The architectonic of open-ended reason.- 1.4 The theory and practice of critical rationalism.- 1.5 Science as training for autonomy.- 1.6 Science and the call of the wild.- 1.7 Science and controversy.- 2. Tolerance.- 2.1 Faith in the open society: the end of hermeneutics.- 2.2 The functions of intellectual rubbish.- 2.3 Science and the interpersonal.- 2.4 Science and pluralism.- 2.5 Wild goose chase.- 2.6 Science and its public relations.- 2.7 Irrationalism today.- 3. Reason.- 3.1 Minimal criteria for intellectual progress.- 3.2 Bloodletting.- 3.3 The critique of linearity.- 3.4 Science, politics and objectivity.- 3.5 Science and the detective novel.- 3.6 The two books.- 3.7 Science and technology.- 4. Philosophy.- 4.1 Science and philosophy.- 4.2 Progress in science and in art.- 4.3 Technology as both science and art.- 4.4 Artificial intelligence.- 4.5 Philosophy without science.- 4.6 Science and art.- 4.7 The inner world.- 5. Responsibility.- 5.1 Validation.- 5.2 The politics of science.- 5.3 Science as a public enterprise.- 5.4 Science and commonsense.- 5.5 Rationalizing politics.- 5.6 The siblinghood of humanity.- 5.7 For public responsibility for spaceship earth.- Suggested Reading.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.