Author: David Ludwig
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000413810
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by demonstrating how frameworks from academic philosophy (e.g. standpoint theory, social epistemology, feminist philosophy of science) and related fields (e.g. decolonial studies, transdisciplinarity, global history of science) can contribute to critical engagement with global dimensions of knowledge and science. Global challenges such as climate change, food production, and infectious diseases raise complex questions about scientific knowledge production and its interactions with local knowledge systems and social realities. As academic philosophy provides relatively little reflection on global negotiations of knowledge, many pressing scientific and societal issues remain disconnected from core debates in epistemology and philosophy of science. This book is an invitation to broaden agendas of academic philosophy by presenting epistemology and philosophy of science as globally engaged fields that address heterogeneous forms of knowledge production and their interactions with local livelihoods, practices, and worldviews. This integrative ambition makes the book equally relevant for philosophers and interdisciplinary scholars who are concerned with methodological and political challenges at the intersection of science and society.
Author: Sandra Harding
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134727321
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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In this pioneering new book, Sandra Harding and Robert Figueroa bring together an important collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diversity issues for the philosophy of science and technology. The essays gathered in this volume extend current philosophical discussion of science and technology beyond the standard feminist and gender analyses that have flourished over the past two decades, by bringing a thorough and truly diverse set of cultural, racial, and ethical concerns to bear on questioning in these areas. Science and Other Cultures charts important new directions in ongoing discussions of science and technology, and makes a significant contribution to both scholarly and teaching resources available in the field.
Author: Steve Fuller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135375321
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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As the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has become more established, it has increasingly hidden its philosophical roots. While the trend is typical of disciplines striving for maturity, Steve Fuller, a leading figure in the field, argues that STS has much to lose if it abandons philosophy. In his characteristically provocative style, he offers the first sustained treatment of the philosophical foundations of STS and suggests fruitful avenues for further research. With stimulating discussions of the Science Wars, the Intelligent Design Theory controversy, and theorists such as Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour, Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies is required reading for students and scholars in STS and the philosophy of science.
Author: Rom Harré
Publisher: Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Harré shows how various views about the nature of science are related to the great historical schools of philosophy. He sets out his argument in terms of concrete episodes in the history of science. Harré also examines the theory that science is a form of art, and looks at the way scientific knowledge affects out religious beliefs.
Author: Rom Harré
Publisher: Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Harré shows how various views about the nature of science are related to the great historical schools of philosophy. He sets out his argument in terms of concrete episodes in the history of science. Harré also examines the theory that science is a form of art, and looks at the way scientific knowledge affects out religious beliefs.
Author: Hans Halvorson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107110998
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Reconsiders the role of formal logic in the analytic approach to philosophy, using cutting-edge mathematical techniques to elucidate twentieth-century debates.
Author: Gerard Delanty
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816631278
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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It is argued that the conception of social science emerging today is one that involves a synthesis of radical constructivism and critical realism. The crucial challenge facing social science is a question of its public role: growing reflexivity in society has implications for the social production of knowledge and is bringing into question the separation of expert systems from other forms of knowledge.
Author: Rom Harré
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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A collection of 13 essays from the latter half of the 20th century on the philosophy of mathematics, for undergraduate students and general readers with no particular background in mathematics. They ponder such topics as mathematical truth, two dogmas of empiricism, the philosophical basis of intuitionistic logic, mathematics without foundations, conservativeness and incompleteness, and the structuralist view of mathematical objects. Includes a section of suggested readings. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Ryan M. Nefdt
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030554384
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary questions in the study of language. Linguistics throughout history has been a conduit to the study of the mind, brain, societal structure, literature and history itself. The epistemic and methodological transfer between the sciences and humanities in regards to linguistics has often been documented, but the underlying philosophical issues have not always been adequately addressed. With 15 original and interdisciplinary chapters, this volume therefore tackles vital questions relating to the philosophy, history, and theoretical interplay between the study of language and fields as varied as logic, physics, biology, classical philology and neuroscience. With a four part structure, questions of the mathematical foundations of linguistics, links to the natural sciences, cognitive implications and historical connections, take centre stage throughout the volume. The final chapters present research related to the linguistic connections between history, philosophy and the humanities more broadly. Advancing new avenues of research, this volume is exemplary in its treatment of diachronic and cross-disciplinary interaction, and will be of interest to all scholars interested in the study of language.
Author: Michael D. Dahnke
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826105548
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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