Yorick's World: Science and the Knowing Subject - Couverture rigide

Caws, Peter

 
9780520079199: Yorick's World: Science and the Knowing Subject
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520079191 ISBN 13 : 9780520079199
Editeur : University of California Press, 1993

Synopsis

Peter Caws provides a fresh and often iconoclastic treatment of some of the most vexing problems in the philosophy of science: explanation, induction, causality, evolution, discovery, artificial intelligence, and the social implications of technological rationality.

Caws's work has been shaped equally by the insights of Continental philosophy and a concern with scientific practice. In these twenty-eight essays spanning more than a quarter of a century, he ranges from discussions of the work of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, to relations between science and surrealism, to the concept of intentionality, to the limits of quantitative description. A lively mix of history, theory, speculation, and analysis, Yorick's World presents a vision of science that includes human history and social life. It will interest professional philosophers and scientists, and at the same time its directness will make it readily accessible to nontechnical readers.

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À propos de l?auteur

Peter Caws is University Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University. Among his recent books are Sartre (1984), and Structuralism: The Art of the Intelligible (1988).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520079191
ISBN 13 
9780520079199
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
412
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