Articulating the world :: conceptual understanding and the scientific image /

"Naturalism 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. Paradoxically, however, scientific knowledge itself appears to transcend nature, seemingly...

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Main Author: Rouse, Joseph, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:"Naturalism 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. Paradoxically, however, scientific knowledge itself appears to transcend nature, seemingly making it impossible to conceptualize within scientific naturalism. In Articulating the World, Joseph Rouse takes up this challenge, drawing on recent developments in evolutionary biology and the philosophy of science to defend naturalism by revising both how we understand our scientific conception of the world and how we situate ourselves within it"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226293707
022629370X

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