Dan Bruiger

The Found and the Made

Science, Reason, and the Reality of Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book critically examines how mathematical modelling shapes and limits a scientific approach to the natural world and affects how society views nature

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781412862509
• ISBN-10: 1412862507
• Artikelnr.: 43030422

Autorenporträt

Dan Bruiger

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preamble: The Barcode of Nature
Part One: The World as Found
1 What Is Found?
2 What Is Nature?
3 What Is Science?
4 Law, Chance, and Necessity
5 Mathematical and Physical Reality
Part Two: The World Remade
6 Consciousness and Its Consequences
7 What It Is Like to Be an Intentional System
8 The Rebellion against Nature
9 The Ideal of Perfect Knowledge
10 The Scientific World
Part Three: Maker's Knowledge
11 The Book of Nature
12 The Religious Origins of Science
13 Deductionism, or the Proof Shall Make You Free
14 Ideality
15 Is Nature Real?
Part Four: Beyond the Mechanist Faith
16 Is Reality Exhaustible in Thought?
17 Mechanism and Organism
18 Theories of Something
19 The Next Revolution in Physics?
20 The Stance of Unknowing
Index