Postmodern philosophy and the scientific turn / Dorothea E. Olkowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olkowski, Dorothea.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Philosophy and science.

Postmodernism.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786613626394

9781280596568

1280596562

9780253001146

0253001145

OCLC:

794663266