Dorothea E Olkowski

Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

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Produktbeschreibung

Olkowski proposes a model of phenomenology, both scientific and philosophical, that helps make sense of reality and composes an ethics for dealing with unpredictability in our world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780253001122
• ISBN-10: 0253001129
• Artikelnr.: 34930004

Autorenporträt

Dorothea E. Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Director of the Cognitive Studies Minor. She is author of Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation and Resistance, Flight, Creation: Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy and editor (with Christina Schües and Helen A. Fielding) of Time in Feminist Phenomenology (IUP, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Postmodern Philosophy
Acknowledgements
1. Nature Calls: Scientific Worldviews and the Sokal Hoax
2. The Natural Contract and the Archimedean World View
3. Semi-Free: Thermodynamics, Probability and the New Worldview
4. Burning Man: The Influence of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the
Science of Flow
5. Philosophy's Extra-scientific Messages
6. Love's Ontology: Ethics Beyond the Limits of Classical Science
Notes
Bibliography
Index