Science in the Forest, Science in the Past - Further Interdisciplinary Explorations

This bookcomprises of papers from the second of two workshops involving a group of scholars united in the conviction that the great diversity of knowledge claims and practices for which we have evidence must be taken seriously in their own terms rather than by the yardstick of Western modernity.

List of contents

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Philosophical engagements with distant sciences 3. Mongolian map-making as practice 4. Star canoes, voyaging worlds 5. Counting generation(s) 6. A pagan arithmetic: unstable sets in indigenous Amazonia 7. As perceived, not as known: digital enquiry and the art of intelligence 8. Inventing Artificial Intelligence in Ethiopia 9. Mereological themes in cuneiform worldmaking 10. Monteverdi's unruly women and their Amazonian sisters

About the author

Willard McCarty works on relations among the interpretative human and computational sciences. He is Editor of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews and founding convenor of the online seminar for digital humanities, Humanist (1987- ). His current project is a study of what can be done with artificial intelligence to improve curiosity's well- being.

Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd is based at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge. The most recent of his many general cross-cultural studies of human cognitive experience is Intelligence and Intelligibility (2020).

Aparecida Vilaça is a social anthropologist from Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She has been working with the Wari', an indigenous Amazonian people, for the last thirty years. Her main research themes are cannibalism, warfare, conversion to Christianity, schooling and mathematical knowledge.

Summary

This bookcomprises of papers from the second of two workshops involving a group of scholars united in the conviction that the great diversity of knowledge claims and practices for which we have evidence must be taken seriously in their own terms rather than by the yardstick of Western modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Willard (King''''s College London Mccarty
• Assisted by: Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd (Editor), Lloyd Geoffrey E. R. (Editor), Willard Mccarty (Editor), Aparecida Vilaça (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032150727
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3215072-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Interdisciplinary Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SCIENCE / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, computer science, Philosophy of Science, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Historiography, History of Science, environmental science, engineering & technology, Social and cultural anthropology, Environmental science, engineering and technology