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Mathematics, science, and postclassical theory /

Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language, proof, truth, and reality currently emerging from poststructuralist literary theory, constructivist his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, Barbara Herrnstein (Editor ), Plotnitsky, Arkady (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1997.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: networks and symetries: decidable and undecidable / Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky
  • Thinking dia-grams: mathematics, writing, and virtual reality / Brian Rotman
  • Concepts and the mangle of practice: constructing quaternions / Andrew Pickering
  • The moment of truth on Dublin bridge: a response to Andrew Pickering / Owen Flanagan
  • Explanation, agency, and metaphysics: a response to Owen Flanagan / Andrew Pickering
  • Agency and the hybrid collectif / Michel Callon and John Law
  • The accidental chordate: contingency in developmental systems / Susan Oyama
  • Complementarity, idealization, and the limits of classical conceptions of reality / Arkady Plotnitsky
  • Is "is a precursor of" a transitive relation? / E. Roy Weintraub
  • Fraud by numbers: quantitative rhetoric in the Piltdown forgery discovery / Malcolm Ashmore
  • A glance at SunSet: numerical fundaments in Frege, Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Beckett / John Vignaux Smyth
  • Microdynamics of incommensurability: philosophy of science meets science studies / Barbara Herrnstein Smith.