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Articulating the world : conceptual understanding and the scientific image /
"Naturalism 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. Paradoxically, however, scientific knowledge itself appears to transcend nature, seemingly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Naturalism and the scientific image
- Conceptual understanding as discursive niche construction
- What is conceptual understanding?
- Conceptual understanding in light of evolution
- Language, social practice, and conceptual normativity
- Two concepts of objectivity
- Conceptual articulation in scientific practice
- Scientific practice and the scientific image
- Experimental practice and conceptual understanding
- Laws and modalities in scientific practice
- Laboratory fictions and the opening of scientific domains
- Scientific significance
- Conclusion.