Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Smith

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Produktbeschreibung

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 history and sociology of science, and related work in contemporary philosophy. Featuring a distinguished group of international contributors, this volume engages themes and issues central to current theoretical debates in virtually all disciplines: agency, causality, determinacy, representation, and the social dynamics of knowledge.In a substantive introductory essay, the editors explain the notion of "e;postclassical theory"e; and discuss the significance of ideas such as emergence and undecidability in current work in and on science and mathematics. Other essays include a witty examination of the relations among mathematical thinking, writing, and the technologies of virtual reality; an essay that reconstructs the conceptual practices that led to a crucial mathematical discovery-or construction-in the 19th century; a discussion of the implications of Bohr's complementarity principle for classical ideas of reality; an examination of scientific laboratories as "e;hybrid"e; communities of humans and nonhumans; an analysis of metaphors of control, purpose, and necessity in contemporary biology; an exploration of truth and lies, and the play of words and numbers in Shakespeare, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Beckett; and a final chapter on recent engagements, or nonengagements, between rationalist/realist philosophy of science and contemporary science studies.Contributors. Malcolm Ashmore, Michel Callon, Owen Flanagan, John Law, Susan Oyama, Andrew Pickering, Arkady Plotnitsky, Brian Rotman, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, John Vignaux Smyth, E. Roy Weintraub

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822382720
• Artikelnr.: 54818181

Autorenporträt

Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Networks and Symmetries, Decidable and Undecidable / Barbara
Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky
Thinking Dia-Grams: Mathematics, Writing, and Virtual Reality /
> 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 Reply 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, and Beckett / John Vignaux Smyth
Microdynamics of Incommensurability: Philosophy of Science Meets Science
Studies / Barbara Hernnstein Smith
Notes on Contributors
Index