RT Review
T1 Mere Science: Mapping the Land Bridge Between Emotion, Politics, and Ethics
JF Zygon
VO 54
IS 2
SP 382
OP 386
A1 Schaefer, Donovan O. 1981-
A2 Sideris, Lisa H. 1965-
LA English
PB Open Library of Humanities$s2024-
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1669074951
AB Lisa Sideris's Consecrating Science: Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World (2017) proposes that the call by some science advocates for a new moral framework based on scientific wonder is flawed. Sideris develops a typology of "wonder" with two separate affective axes: "true wonder" that is the prerogative of a sort of dwelling with the overwhelming mystery of life, and "curiosity" that presses to resolve puzzles and break through into a space of total clarity. The former, Sideris writes, is an ethical resource that, by placing the human self against the backdrop of the unknowable cosmic expanse, prompts humility and genuine admiration for nature. The latter is the theater of "mere science." This essay follows suit with Sideris's line of questioning, but also pushes back on the correlation of wonder with ethical attentiveness and proposes ways that science in its puzzle-solving mode can be brought back into the ethical conversation.
K1 Bruno Latour
K1 Lisa Sideris
K1 Affect
K1 Climate Change
K1 Ethics
K1 Wonder
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1111/zygo.12510