Stanley, Matthew (Author)
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 105, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 588-595
n the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many attempts to justify political and social systems on the basis of physics and astronomy. By the early twentieth century such moves increasingly also integrated the life and social sciences. The physical sciences gradually became less appealing as a sole source for sociopolitical thought. The details of this transition help explain the contemporary reluctance to capitalize on an ostensibly rich opportunity for naturalistic social reasoning: the anthropic principle in cosmology, which deals with the apparent fine-tuning of the universe for life.
...MoreArticle Milam, Erika Lorraine (2014) Focus: The Peculiar Persistence of the Naturalistic Fallacy. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 564-568).
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