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The dialectical materialism of Marx is not only a useful philosophical method for understanding the processes of society, but is also a powerful tool for the assessment of the scientific method, according to Marxists Grant and Woods. In this first volume of their work, they explain the philosophical basis of dialectical materialism and defend its practice using examples from current work in formal logic and physics. They suggest that just as science provides confirmation of dialectical materialism, so dialectical materialism helps demonstrate where science has lost its way. They are especially critical of the injection of mysticism into current works of theoretical physics.
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Alan Woods Ted Grant Dialectical Philosophy and Modern Science REASON IN REVOLT Volume I Algora REASON IN REVOLT REASON IN REVOLT DIALECTICAL PHILOSOPHY AND MODERN SCIENCE Volume I Ted Grant & Alan Woods Algora Publishing New York © 2002 by Algora Publishing. All Rights Reserved. www.algora.com No portion of this book (beyond what is permitted by Sections 107 or 108 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976) may be reproduced by any process, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, without the express written permission of the publisher. ISBN: 0-87586-156-3 (softcover) ISBN: 0-87586-157-1 (hardcover) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 2002014693 Grant, Ted. Reason in revolt : dialectical philosophy and modern science / Ted Grant, Alan Woods. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87586-157-1 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-87586-156-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Communism and science. 2. Dialectical materialism. I. Woods, Alan. II. Title. HX541 .G736 2002 335.4'112—dc21 2002014693 Printed in the United States TABLE of CONTENTS AUTHOR’S