The semantics of science / Roy Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Roy, 1931- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Continuum, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Semantics of Science proposes a radical new rethinking of science and scientific discourse. Roy Harris argues that supercategories such as science, art, religion and history are themselves verbal constructs, and thus language-dependent. Because each supercategory is constructed differently, it is necessary to pay attention to the linguistic process by which a discourse such as 'science' has developed. Through this view it is possible to observe that the function of the supercategory is to integrate what would otherwise be separate activities and enquiries, and the result of this integratio

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Language and the Aristotelian scientist; 2 Before and after Aristotle; 3 Semantics and the Royal Society; 4 Science in the kitchen; 5 The rhetoric of linguistic science; 6 Mathematics and the language of science; 7 Science and common sense; 8 Supercategory semantics; 9 Integrating science; Appendix 1 Einstein on science and reality; Appendix 2 Heisenberg on language; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611294816

9781281294814

1281294810

9781847143488

1847143482

OCLC:

317384516