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(2003) Science and culture, Dordrecht, Springer.
Philosophy should promote science as art for the lovers of art and art as science for the lovers of science: any reason for loving the one domain is good enough for falling in love with the other. This should improve the quality of life. For this task, philosophy needs promotion too. And the audience of the promotion thus need not be lovers of any of the three domains. They have to be independent of mind, however, and able to decide for themselves. In the received jargon, they should be autonomous. This idea clashes with the view that there is an obligation to endorse science — or art, or anything else. This move is thus revolutionary.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_5
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Agassi, J. (2003). Science as training for autonomy, in Science and culture, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 48-56.
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