Science in the Forest, Science in the Past / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, Aparecida Vilaça.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- editor.

Vilaça, Aparecida, editor.

Series:

Special Issues in Ethnographic Theory Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

HAU Books 2020

[s.l.] : HAU Books, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection brings together leading anthropologists, historians, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers to discuss the sciences and mathematics used in various Eastern, Western, and Indigenous societies, both ancient and contemporary. The authors analyze prevailing assumptions about these societies and propose more faithful, sensitive analyses of their ontological views about reality-a step toward mutual understanding and translatability across cultures and research fields. Science in the Forest, Science in the Past is a pioneering interdisciplinary exploration that will challenge the way readers interested in sciences, mathematics, humanities, social research, computer sciences, and education think about deeply held notions of what constitutes reality, how it is apprehended, and how to investigate it.

Contents:

Preface / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça

The Clash of Ontologies and the Problems of Translation and Mutual Intelligibility / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd

Inventing Nature: Christianity and Science in Indigenous Amazonia / Aparecida Vilaça

A Clash of Ontologies? Time, Law, and Science in Papua New Guinea / Marilyn Strathern

Mathematical Traditions in Ancient Greece and Rome / Serafina Cuomo

Is there Mathematics in the Forest? / Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida

Different Clusters of Texts from Ancient China, Different Mathematical Ontologies / Karine Chemla

Shedding Light on Diverse Cultures of Mathematical Practices in South Asia: Early Sanskrit Mathematical Texts in Conversation with Modern Elementary Tamil Mathematical Curricula (in Dialogue with Senthil Babu) / Agathe Keller

Antidomestication in the Amazon: Swidden and its Foes / Manuela Carneiro da Cunha

Objective Functions: (In)humanity and Inequity in Artificial Intelligence / Alan Blackwell

Modeling, Ontology, and Wild Thought: Toward an Anthropology of the Artificially Intelligent / Willard McCarty

Rhetorical Antinomies and Radical Othering: Recent Reflections on Responses to an Old Paper Concerning Human-Animal Relations in Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones

Turning to Ontology in Studies of Distant Sciences / Nicholas Jardine

Epilogue: The Way Ahead / Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

9781912808427

1912808420

OCLC:

1453195555