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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463540903321

Autore

Olkowski Dorothea

Titolo

Postmodern philosophy and the scientific turn [[electronic resource] /] / Dorothea E. Olkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-59656-2

9786613626394

0-253-00114-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

190.9/04

Soggetti

Phenomenology

Philosophy and science

Postmodernism

Science - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[199]-207) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Nature calls: scientific worldviews and the sokal hoax -- The natural contract and the archimedean worldview -- Semi-free: thermodynamics, probability, and the new worldview -- Burning man: the influence of nonequilibrium thermodynamics and the -- Science of flow -- Philosophy's extra-scientific messages -- Love's ontology: ethics beyond the limits of classical science.

Sommario/riassunto

What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that the historic link between science and philosophy, mathematics itself, plays a fundamental role in the development of the worldviews that drive both fields. Focusing on language, its expression of worldview and usage, she develops a phenomenological account of human thought and action to explicate the role of philosophy in the sciences. Olkowski prop