Product Description
The Science Delusion offers a timely counterpart to the new wave of aggressive anti-religionism exemplified by Dawkins’ ‘scientific’ critique of The God Delusion. For in today’s world, blind and unthinking deference to ‘The Science’ has become as much a part of Western Culture as unquestioned deference to ‘The Church’ used to be.
The aim of the Science Delusion is not to defend any specific religious doctrines but to show how what we call ‘science’ is as much based on irrational and dogmatically unquestioned beliefs – accepted entirely on faith – as the most ‘fundamental’ of religions.
The word ‘science’ stems from the Latin scire – ‘to know’ – a verb whose root meaning is ‘to cut through’.
By ‘cutting through’ the common myths and delusions that make up our idea of ‘science’, as well as those that science itself is founded upon, philosopher Peter Wilberg presents a ‘heretical’ challenge to the quasi-religious authority that the scientific world-view wields in the Western media, largely in the service of corporate interests.
The aim of the Science Delusion is not to defend any specific religious doctrines but to show how what we call ‘science’ is as much based on irrational and dogmatically unquestioned beliefs – accepted entirely on faith – as the most ‘fundamental’ of religions.
The word ‘science’ stems from the Latin scire – ‘to know’ – a verb whose root meaning is ‘to cut through’.
By ‘cutting through’ the common myths and delusions that make up our idea of ‘science’, as well as those that science itself is founded upon, philosopher Peter Wilberg presents a ‘heretical’ challenge to the quasi-religious authority that the scientific world-view wields in the Western media, largely in the service of corporate interests.
About the Author
Born in London in 1952, Peter Wilberg studied at Oxford and with Antioch University. He has spent his life researching and writing in the fields of philosophy of medicine, psychiatry, psychotherapy, science and religion. He has a particular interest in Indian tantric metaphysics and theology and in the Eastern roots of early Christianity. His published books include The Awareness Principle - a radical new philosophy of life, science and religion; Heidegger, Medicine and 'Scientific Method' and The QUALIA Revolution - from quantum physics to cosmic qualia science.
