The Found and the Made - Science, Reason, and the Reality of Nature

This book critically examines how mathematical modelling shapes and limits a scientific approach to the natural world and affects how society views nature

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Preamble: The Barcode of Nature
Part One: The World as Found
1 What Is Found?
2 What Is Nature?
3 What Is Science?
4 Law, Chance, and Necessity
5 Mathematical and Physical Reality
Part Two: The World Remade
6 Consciousness and Its Consequences
7 What It Is Like to Be an Intentional System
8 The Rebellion against Nature
9 The Ideal of Perfect Knowledge
10 The Scientific World
Part Three: Maker's Knowledge
11 The Book of Nature
12 The Religious Origins of Science
13 Deductionism, or the Proof Shall Make You Free
14 Ideality
15 Is Nature Real?
Part Four: Beyond the Mechanist Faith
16 Is Reality Exhaustible in Thought?
17 Mechanism and Organism
18 Theories of Something
19 The Next Revolution in Physics?
20 The Stance of Unknowing
Index

Summary

This book critically examines how mathematical modelling shapes and limits a scientific approach to the natural world and affects how society views nature

Product details

• Authors: Dan Bruiger, Bruiger Dan
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032921877
• ISBN: 978-1-032-92187-7
• No. of pages: 332
• Weight: 458 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies