Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image
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Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image
Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image

Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image

By
Joseph Rouse (Author)  

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Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A longstanding paradox within naturalism, however, has been the status of scientific knowledge itself, which seems, at first glance, to be something that transcends and is therefore impossible to conceptualize within scientific naturalism itself. In Articulating the World, Joseph Rouse argues that the most pressing challenge for advocates of naturalism today is precisely this: to understand how to make sense of a scientific conception of nature as itself part of nature, scientifically understood. Drawing upon recent developments in evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science, Rouse defends naturalism in response to this challenge by revising both how we understand our scientific conception of the world and how we situate ourselves within it.
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.
  • Contributor: Joseph Rouse
  • Imprint: University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN13: 9780226293677
  • Number of Pages: 416
  • Packaged Dimensions: 16x24x3mm
  • Packaged Weight: 709
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Release Date: 2015-12-15
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: 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.

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