Buku ini membahas hakekat keilmuan secara mendalam namun populer. Dimulai dengan sebuah sebuah pengantar redaksi yang mengupas hakekat keilmuwan secara menyeluruh, kumpulan karangan ini dilengkapi dengan 20 tulisan sarjana terkemuka dari dalam dan luar negeri seperti Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, John G. Kemenny, Gilbert Highet, Rudolf Carnap, Bochenski, di samping Slamet Iman Santoso, Liek Wilardjo, B. Suprapto, dan N. Daldjoeni.
Permasalahan yang dibahas dalam kumpulan karangan ini mencakup antara lain peranan berpikir dalam peradaban manusia, hakekat ilmu, kelebihan dan kekuarangannya kegunaan teori keilmuan. Juga dibahas peranan beberapa disiplin keilmuan seperti matematika, logika, statistika, bahasa, dan juga peranan penelitian. Tidak dilupakan pula pembahasan mengenai hubungan antara etika dengan ilmu.
Bungan rampai ini ditujukan kepada semua orang yang mencintai ilmu agar mereka lebih memahami apa yang mereka cintai, dan dengan demikian, dirangsang untuk mempelajarinya dengan lebih baik. Berguna bagi siapa saja yang menaruh minat kepada bidang keilmuan, dari pelajar, mahasiswa, promovendus yang sedang menyiapkan disertasi, guru/staff pengajar atau siapa saja yang ingin menajamkan kemampuan berpikirnya berdasarkan metode keimuan
Józef Maria Bocheński (born 30 august 1902 in Czuszw, Poland - 1995) was a Polish dominican, logician and philosopher. After taking part in the 1920 campaign against Bolshevik Russia, he took up legal studies in Lww, then he studied economy in Poznań. Having received his doctorate in philosophy (studied in Freiburg, 1928-1931) and theology (Rome, 1931-1934), he lectured in logic at the Collegium Angelicum in Rome (until 1940). During World War II he served as a chaplain for Polish forces fighting in the September campaign (1939) taken prisoner of war, he escaped the Germans and reached Rome. He joined the Polish army and served as chaplain first in France, and then in England. Fought as a soldier in 1944, in the Italian campaign of the II Corps at Monte Cassino. In 1945 he received the chair of history of twentieth-century philosophy at the Freiburg University (of which he was Rector in 1964-1966); he founded and ran the Institute of Eastern Europe in Freiburg, published the journal Studies in Soviet Thought and a book series concerned with the foundations of the Marxists philosophy (Sovietica). Bocheski served as consultant to several governments: West Germany (under K. Adenauer), South Africa, USA, Argentina, and Switzerland. Before 1989 none of his works had been published officially in Poland.
Want to own this book, it helps to think systematically, makes us wonder how to think like ancestor. How they got the light, how they came up with ideas. And of course this book pointed out how science and knowledge are different, also, how rasionality and empiricism are combined to form the so-called scientific method