Engaging Science : How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically
Language: English
Published by Cornell University Press, 1996
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Pbk, 282 p. Previous owner's name on half t.p., some annotations to text in pencil only o/w a clean copy in very good condition. Contents : Part I RETHINKING THE TRADITIONS: POSITIVISM, SCIENTIFIC REALISM, HISTORICAL RATIONALISM, AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM -- 1. Philosophy of Science and the Persistent Narratives of Modernity -- 2. The Politics of Postmodern Philosophy of Science -- 3. Arguing for the Natural Ontological Attitude -- 4. Should Philosophy of Science Be Postpositivist -- Part II RECONSTRUCTING PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE: PRACTICES AND THE DYNAMICS OF KNOWING -- 5. The Significance of Scientific Practices -- 6. Narrative Reconstruction, Epistemic Significance, and the Temporality of Scientific Practices -- 7. The Dynamics of Scientific Knowing: Understanding Science without Reifying Knowledge -- 8. Against Representation: Davidsonian Semantics and Cultural Studies of Science -- 9. What Are Cultural Studies of Science? [Philosophy, Modern - Science Social aspects] t240 / m15879.
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- Title
- Engaging Science : How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically
- Author
- Rouse, Joseph
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801482895
- ISBN 13
- 9780801482892
Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversimplify the political and cultural significance of the sciences. He provides an alternative understanding of science that focuses on practices rather than knowledge.
Rouse first outlines the shared assumptions by ostensibly opposed interpretive stances toward science: scientific realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and postempiricist historical rationalism. He then advances cultural studies as an alternative approach, one that understands the sciences as ongoing patterns of situated activity whose material setting is part of practice. Cultural studies of science, the
author suggests, take seriously their own participation in and engagement with the culture of science, rejecting the purported detachment of earlier philosophical or sociological standpoints. Rather, such studies offer specific, critical discussions of how and why science matters, and to whom, and how opportunites for meaningful understanding and action are transformed by scientific practices.
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About the Author
Joseph Rouse is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University and the author of Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science, from Cornell.
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