The Limited Rationality of Technology                          *

Joseph Agassi

doi:10.1177/0048393118814765

The Limited Rationality of Technology ^*

Joseph Agassi^*

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Faculty of Humanities

York University Toronto

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Abstract

Ingemar Nordin’s Using Knowledge: On the Rationality of Science, Technology, and Medicine is a critical rationalist examination of medicine as a social system, largely science-based, but including quackery. Thus rationality is limited, as befits the author’s fallibilism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	160-166
Number of pages	7
Journal	Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Volume	49
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393118814765
State	Published - 1 Mar 2019

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Popper
medicine
rationality science
technology

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