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What did the Romans know? : an inquiry into science and worldmaking / Daryn Lehoux.
LIBRA Q124.95 .L44 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehoux, Daryn, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science, Ancient.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- The web of knowledge
- A Roman world
- Knowing nature in the Roman context
- Overview
- Nature, gods, and governance
- Divinity and divination
- Roman virtues
- Nature and the legitimation of the republic
- A Ciceronian contradiction?
- Knowledge of nature and virtuous action
- Fabulae versus learned observation
- Conclusion
- Law in nature, nature in law
- Laws of nature
- Natural laws
- Human and divine governance
- Is a "law of nature" even possible in antiquity?
- Divinity, redux
- Epistemology and judicial rhetoric
- Theory-ladenness and observation
- Observations as models
- Observational selectivity
- Examination of witnesses
- The natural authority of morals
- Declamation and certainty
- The embeddedness of seeing
- Doubts about vision
- Mechanisms of seeing in antiquity
- The eyes as organs
- Not every black box is a camera obscura
- Epistemologies of seeing
- The centrality of experience
- The trouble with taxa
- Knowledge claims and context-dependence
- Unproblematic facticity
- Problems with experience
- The lab section of the chapter
- The question of worlds
- Epilogue
- The long reach of ontology
- Kinds of justification for prediction
- Predictability and determinism
- Physical solutions to determinism
- The cascading effect
- Dreams of a final theory
- Explaining the cosmos
- Orbs, souls, laws
- Numbers in nature
- Harmony and empiricism
- Of miracles and mistaken theories
- History as a problem for realism
- Quantum magnum pi?
- Can we avoid the problems history poses?
- First strategy: we have something they didn't
- Second strategy: the curate's egg
- Other ways out
- Worlds given, worlds made
- What's in a world?
- Kuhn's world
- What good is relativism?
- Coherence
- Truth and meaning
- Realism, coherence, and history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226471143
- 0226471144
- OCLC:
- 743755841
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