Book ID: CBB347918125

Articulating the World: Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image (2015)

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Rouse, Joseph (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 416 pp.
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Pillatt, Toby
David Bentley Hart
Barnes, Gerry
Donald M. Braxton
Hamid, Nabeel
Steane, Andrew
Concepts
Natural science
Philosophy of science
Naturalism (philosophy)
Public understanding of science
Evolutionary developmental biology
Science and society
Time Periods
Modern
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Early modern
Places
United States
Portugal
England
Hawaii (U.S.)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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