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Scientific imperialism is a term that appears to have been coined by Ellis T. Powell when addressing the Commonwealth Club of Canada on 8 September 1920. He defined imperialism as "the sense of arbitrary and capricious domination over the bodies and souls of men," he used the term "scientific imperialism" to mean "the subjection of all the developed and undeveloped powers of the earth to the mind of man."[1][original research?]
In modern usage, however, scientific imperialism refers to situations in which critics perceive science to act imperiously. Philosopher of science John Dupré described it (in his 2001 book Human Nature and the Limits of Science, p. 74) as "the tendency to push a good scientific idea far beyond the domain in which it was originally introduced, and often far beyond the domain in which it can provide much illumination." He wrote that "devotees of these approaches are inclined to claim that they are in possession not just of one useful perspective on human behavior, but of the key that will open doors to the understanding of ever wider areas of human behavior."[2]
Scientific imperialism has also been charged against "those who believe that the study of politics can and should be modelled on the natural sciences, a position defended most forcibly in the United States, and those who have dissented, viewing this ambition as methodologically unjustified and ethically undesirable."[3]
^Scientific Imperialism (an address), Delivered by Ellis T. Powell, LL.B. D.Sc. (1920)
^Dupré, John (1994). "Against Scientific Imperialism". PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. 1994 (2): 374–381. doi:10.1086/psaprocbienmeetp.1994.2.192948. JSTOR 192948. S2CID 140920446. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
^Bell, Duncan (2006). "Beware of false prophets: biology, human nature and the future of International Relations theory". International Affairs. 82 (3): 493–510. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2346.2006.00547.x.
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