Articulating the World - Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Rouse is the Hedding Professor of Moral Science in the Philosophy Department and the Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University. He is the author of three previous books, including How Scientific Practices Matter , also from the University of Chicago Press; and he is the editor of John Haugeland's posthumous Dasein Disclosed . Klappentext The most pressing challenge for naturalism today is to understand how to make sense of a scientific understanding of nature as part of nature, scientifically understood. Meeting this challenge requires substantial, complementary revisions to familiar philosophical accounts of both of its components: how to situate our conceptual capacities within a scientific understanding of the world, and what a scientific conception of the world amounts to. Joseph Rouse advances a naturalistic self-understanding by proposing a novel way to think about scientific understanding as a natural phenomenon, drawing extensively upon the philosophy of scientific practice and related interdisciplinary science studies, philosophical work on the normativity of conceptual understanding, and important new developments in evolutionary biology."

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Rouse, Rouse Joseph
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9780226293844
• ISBN: 978-0-226-29384-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Evolution / Evolutionary biology