How Long to Read The Triumph of Uncertainty

How Long Does it Take to Read The Triumph of Uncertainty?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 55 minutes to read The Triumph of Uncertainty by Alfred I. Tauber

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science’s – and his own personal – quest for explanatory certainty. During the 20th century, that goal was displaced by the probabilistic epistemologies required to characterize complex systems, whether in physics, biology, economics, or the social sciences. This “triumph of uncertainty” is the inevitable outcome of irreducible chance and indeterminate causality. And beyond these epistemological limits, the interpretative faculties of the individual scientist (what Michael Polanyi called the “personal” and the “tacit”) invariably affects how data are understood. Whereas positivism had claimed radical objectivity, post-positivists have identified how a web of non-epistemic values and social forces profoundly influence the production of knowledge. Tauber presents a case study of these claims by showing how immunology has incorporated extra-curricular social elements in its theoretical development and how these in turn have influenced interpretive problems swirling around biological identity, individuality, and cognition. The correspondence between contemporary immunology and cultural notions of selfhood are strong and striking. Just as uncertainty haunts science, so too does it hover over current constructions of personal identity, self knowledge, and moral agency. Across the chasm of uncertainty, science and selfhood speak.

How long is The Triumph of Uncertainty?

The Triumph of Uncertainty by Alfred I. Tauber is 406 pages long, and a total of 103,936 words.

This makes it 137% the length of the average book. It also has 127% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Triumph of Uncertainty Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 27 minutes to read The Triumph of Uncertainty aloud.

What Reading Level is The Triumph of Uncertainty?

The Triumph of Uncertainty is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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